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 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
Incorporated in 1847 on the banks of the Merrimack River, Lawrence, Massachusetts, was the final and most ambitious of New Englands planned textile-manufacturin
