The Freedman's Savings Bank & Black Economic Futures

Justene Hill is associate professor of history at the University of Virginia and author of Unfree Markets: The Slaves' Economy and the Rise of Capitalism in South Carolina. This year, she published Savings and Trust: The Rise and Betrayal of the Freedman's Bank which investigates the fraught history of the Freedman's Savings and Trust Company. This event will bring together Professor Hill and Professor William Darity, Jr., renowned scholar of economics and racial inequality to discuss the history of Black banking and Black economic futures.