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Savings And Trust: The Rise And Betrayal Of The FreedmanS Bank
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A Publishers Weekly Best Nonfiction Book Of 2024A Leading Historian Exposes How The Rise And Tragic Failure Of The FreedmanS Bank Has Shaped Economic Inequality In America.In The Years Immediately After The Civil War, Tens Of Thousands Of Former Slaves Deposited Millions Of Dollars Into The FreedmanS Bank. African Americans Envisioned This New Bank As A Launching Pad For Economic Growth And SelfDetermination. But Only Nine Years After It Opened, Their Trust Was Betrayed And The FreedmanS Bank Collapsed.Fully Informed By New Archival Findings, Historian Justene Hill Edwards Unearths A Major Turning Point In American History In This Comprehensive Account Of The FreedmanS Bank And Its Depositors. She Illuminates The Hope With Which The Bank Was First Envisioned And Demonstrates The Significant Setback That The Sabotage Of The Bank Caused In The Fight For Economic Autonomy. Hill Edwards Argues For A New Interpretation Of Its Tragic Failure: The BankS White Financiers Drove The Bank Into The Ground, Not Fredrick Douglass, Its Final President, Or Its Black Depositors And Cashiers. A PageTurning Story Filled With Both WellKnown Figures Like Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, Jay And Henry Cooke, And General O. O. Howard, And Less WellKnown Figures Like Dr. Charles B. Purvis, John Mercer Langston, Congressman Robert Smalls, And Ellen Baptiste Lubin. Savings And Trust Is Necessary Reading For Those Seeking To Understand The Roots Of Racial Economic Inequality In America. 10 Illustrations
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