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SUMMARY:Savings and Trust - A Civil Conversation
DESCRIPTION:Our Civil Conversation featuring Dr. Justene Hill Edwards is a must-see! Dr. Edwards and Jeffrey Nichols explore the rise and fall of the Freedman’s Bank and how it shaped economic inequality in America. Join us on November 20\, 2024 at 7:00 pm. Follow the link to register- It’s Free! \nA Civil Conversation with Dr. Justene Hill Edwards \nAbout the book: 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 its tragic failure: the bank’s white financiers drove the bank into the ground\, not Fredrick Douglass\, its final president\, or its Black depositors and cashiers. A page-turning story filled with both well-known figures like Abraham Lincoln\, Frederick Douglass\, Jay and Henry Cooke\, and General O. O. Howard\, and less well-known 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. \nAbout the author: Justene Hill Edwards is an associate professor of history at the University of Virginia and the author of both Unfree Markets and a forthcoming Norton Short on the history of inequality in America. She lives in Charlottesville\, Virginia.
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