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 t

History of Freedman's Savings and Trust Company in Washington, D.C.

The long history of the racial wealth gap in America told through the stories of seven Black families who struggled to build wealth over multiple generations We

The author tells the history of the Freedman’s Savings Bank, how it grew much too quickly, why it failed and the impact on Black America. The end of slavery i

The everyday lives of enslaved people were filled with the backbreaking tasks that their enslavers forced them to complete. But in spare moments, they found tim