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1 online resource : illustrations. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Columbia studies in the history of U.S. capitalism
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Columbia studies in the history of U.S. capitalism.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
Intro; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. "I Am Yet Waitin": African American Women and Free Labor Banking Experiments in the Emancipation-Era South, 1860s-1900; 2. "Who Is So Helpless as the Negro Woman?": The Independent Order of St. Luke and the Quest for Economic Security, 1856-1902; 3. "Let Us Have a Bank": St. Luke Penny Savings Bank, Economic Activism, and State Regulation, 1903 to World War I; 4. Rituals of Risk and Respectability: Gendered Economic Practices, Credit, and Debt to World War I |
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5. "A Good, Strong, Hustling Woman": Financing the New Negro in the New Era, 1920-1929Epilogue; Appendix; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index |
Summary |
Shennette Garrett-Scott explores black financial innovation and its transformative impact on U.S. capitalism through the story of the St. Luke Bank in Richmond, Virginia: the first and only bank run by black women. Banking on Freedom offers an unparalleled account of how black women carved out economic, social, and political power |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Women in finance -- United States -- History.
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Women in finance. |
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United States. |
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History. |
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African American bankers -- History.
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African American bankers. |
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African American women -- History.
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African American women. |
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Women bankers -- United States -- History.
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Women bankers. |
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African American banks -- History.
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African American banks. |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Garrett-Scott, Shennette. Banking on freedom. New York : Columbia University Press, [2019] 9780231183901 (DLC) 2018045341 (OCoLC)1055566354 |
ISBN |
9780231545211 (electronic book) |
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0231545215 (electronic book) |
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9780231183901 |
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0231183909 |
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9780231183918 |
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0231183917 |
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