Savings and Trust: The Rise and Betrayal of the Freedman's Bank Carmen must fight for her

Carmen must fight for her life -- the life that she and Papa built together in America

Just before dawn on a Sunday morning

and our home

Pee Wee Reese

Savings and Trust: The Rise and Betrayal of the Freedman's Bank Carmen must fight for herIn 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