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Freedmen, Philanthropy, and Fraud: A History of the Freedman's Savings Bank (Blacks in the New World) [Hardcover]

Carl R. Osthaus (Author)

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Book Description

Publication Date: March 1, 1976 | Series: Blacks in the New World

From dust jacket notes: "'The black man's cow, but the white man's milk' - this was how Frederick Douglass and many others viewed the Freedman's Savings Bank. Begun in 1865 to provide freedmen with a place for saving the profits from their crops and bounty payments from military service, within a scant decade the Bank had failed. Too late, depositors discovered that the Bank's prestigious directors had manipulated and embezzled the funds which they had been carefully and conscientiously entrusting to it...."

#outer_postBodyPS { display: none; } #psGradient { display: none; } #psPlaceHolder { display: none; } #psExpand { display: none; } From dust jacket notes: "'The black man's cow, but the white man's milk' - this was how Frederick Douglass and many others viewed the Freedman's Savings Bank. Begun in 1865 to provide freedmen with a place for saving the profits from their crops and bounty payments from military service, within a scant decade the Bank had failed. Too late, depositors discovered that the Bank's prestigious directors had manipulated and embezzled the funds which they had been carefully and conscientiously entrusting to it...."

Product Details

Hardcover: 257 pages
Publisher: University of Illinois Press; 1st edition, edition (March 1, 1976)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0252003055
ISBN-13: 978-0252003059
Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.6 x 1.1 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #320,805 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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