"Savings and Trust" Virtual Author Talk with Justene Hill Edwards
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Join us for a virtual author talk with author and professor Justene Hill Edwards to discuss her latest book, Savings and Trust: The Rise and Betrayal of the Freedman's Bank!
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About the event
ABOUT THE BOOK:
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-determination. But only nine years after it opened, their trust was betrayed and the Freedman’s 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 Freedman’s 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…