Savings and trust: the rise and betrayal of the Freedman's Bank

Chronicle of events

Dramatis personae

Preface

Introduction: Save the small sums

Part one: Savings. The bank's founding, 1864-65

Growing pains, 1865-66

Part two: Betrayal. The trouble with expansion, 1866-67

A change in priorities, 1868-70

A lending bonanza, 1870-72

Part three: Collapse. A bank examination and a bank failure, 1871-73

The bank's last president, 1874

Fallout, 1874-1911

Conclusion: The problem of finance in the age of emancipation

Acknowledgments

Appendix

Notes

Credits

Index.