Savings and Trust: The Rise and Betrayal of the Freedman's Bank SS_Gift_Guide Since 1967

Since 1967

and defender of republican values

even as it unearths just how vast and treacherous it can be

more than an encyclopedia of whaling lore and legend

" --The New York Times Stella Maris

Savings and Trust: The Rise and Betrayal of the Freedman's Bank SS_Gift_Guide Since 1967Winner of the 2025 Frederick Douglass Book Prize A Publishers Weekly Best Nonfiction Book of 2024 A leading historian exposes how the rise and tragic failure of the Freedman's 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 Freedman's Bank. African Americans envisioned this new bank as a launching pad for economic growth and self