The Freedmen's Savings Bank

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Identifikator:: 175265076X

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-129631

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Fleming, Walter Lynwood http://d-nb.info/gnd/120660560X

Title:: The Freedmen's Savings Bank

Place of publication:: Chapel Hill

Publisher:: Univ. of North Carolina Press

Year of publication:: 1927

Scope:: x, 170 S.

Digitisation:: 2021

Collection:: Economics Books

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CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE Preratory Note . . . . . . . . . sv Wl I. Tue Necro at Tue CrosE oF THE Crvie War . . . Economic weakness of the Negro race. Gradual emancipa-~ tion. Negro labor under Federal supervision. Demorali- zation at the close of the War. “Forty Acres and a Mule.” Failure of the northern planters. The Freedmen’s Bureau. Economic environment of the emancipated Negro. II. ORIGIN oF TnE FrEEDMEN’S SAVINGS BANK. . . . . 19 The Allotment System and the Military Banks. Plans of Sperry and Alvord. Incorporation of the Freedmen’s Savings Bank. III. OrcANizaTION AND Expansion or Tie FREEDMEN'S Bank. 29 The Act of Incorporation. Organization of the Bank. Beginning of Expansion. The Freedmen’s Bank and the Freedmen’s Bureau. The branch banks. List of branch banks with dates of establishment. Interlocking boards. IV. Tue Gooo Work oF THE Bank. . . . son Methods of administration. Training of Negro business men. Literature of the Bank. Good results. The deposits and depositors. MisMANAGEMENT AND OTHER TROUBLES . . . . . . *° Weaknesses of the Bank. Inaccurate bookkeeping. In- competent cashiers. Cases of fraud. Shortage at the branch banks. Neglectful and unfaithful trustees. The amendment to the charter. Loans to speculators. Jay Cooke and the First National Bank. Procedure in making loans. The Seneca Sandstone Company. Results of mismanagement. L& on k 55 ix

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