EditorialBeadwork, which may have been made by people enslaved by the Lefferts family, on the underside of a ceiling joist revealed during the $2.5 million restoration, at the Lefferts Historic House in Prospect Park in the Brooklyn borough of New York, June 9, 2023. (Andrea Mohin/The New York Times)
EditorialBeadwork, which may have been made by people enslaved by the Lefferts family, on the underside of a ceiling joist revealed during the $2.5 million restoration, at the Lefferts Historic House in Prospect Park in the Brooklyn borough of New York, June 9, 2023. (Andrea Mohin/The New York Times)