Download or read book Banking on Freedom written by Shennette Garrett-Scott and published by Columbia Studies in the Histor. This book was released on 2019 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.