About this Event
The Author Series Committee welcomes Dr. Justene Hill Edwards, Associate Professor of History at the University of Virginia, and author of Savings and Trust: The Rise and Betrayal of the Freedman's Bank (W. W. Norton & Company, 2024). Joining Dr. Hill Edwards will be Dr. Kidada Williams, Professor of History at Wayne State University.
Savings and Trust explores the rise and tragic failure of the Freedman’s Bank, established after the Civil War as a launching pad for economic growth and self-determination within formerly enslaved communities. But only nine years after it opened, the Freedman’s Bank collapsed.
Join us in the Galleria for this important discussion. Seating is available on a first-come, first-serve basis.
Copies of Savings and Trust will be available for sale from Detroit's own !
About Justene: Justene Hill Edwards is an Associate Professor of History in the Corcoran Department of History at the University of Virginia. Her research explores the intersection of African American history, the history of slavery, and the history of American capitalism. In her work, she investigates slavery’s role in the long history of economic inequality in America, focusing on the 18th and 19th centuries. Always highlighting the lives of enslaved and formerly enslaved people, she studies the relationship between economic and political freedom for people of African descent in the United States. She is the author of , published in 2021 by Columbia University Press. Her new book, , investigates the fraught history of the Freedman’s Savings and Trust Company.
She received her B.A. from Swarthmore College, M.A. from Florida International University, and Ph.D. from Princeton University.
About Kidada: Kidada E. Williams is the author of I Saw Death Coming (which was Longlisted for the 2023 National Book Award for Nonfiction and won the 2024 Organization of American Historians’ Civil War and Reconstruction Book Award) and They Left Great Marks on Me; co-editor of #CharlestonSyllabus; former host and co-producer of the “Seizing Freedom” podcast. She is an elected fellow of the Society of American Historians and a Professor of History at Wayne State University in Detroit.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Main | Detroit Public Library, 5201 Woodward Avenue, Detroit, United States
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