To the National Archives. We wanted to give you a brief presentation on the free demands records freedmans banks records. The largest number of people we have coming our genealogical our Genealogical Researchers because due to programming the institute of Genealogical Research has skyrocketed among africanamericans. So you can have it have an idea of the kind of information we can find in these records and if you have ancestors who might have made deposits potentially you can find information about these ancestors or ancestors you would not know about because often times they will give information on family members. For genealogical information as it pertains to africanamericans it will sometimes give names of former slave owners. Some of you may not be interested in knowing the names of the people that owned your families if you are the descendent of an enslaved person but from a genealogical respect to, the perspective perspective, this is important. Because this will give records of
To spur Economic Development of the newly emancipated African American population in the postcivil war era. Despite significant financial contributions from figures such as Frederick Douglass, greenback the friedmans bank failed leaving tens of thousands of depositors in financial ruin. Shortly, a Panel Discusses poverty in america 150 years after the creation of the freeman bank. But first a brief history by reference archivist damani davis. This is about two hours. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2014] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] post good evening and welcome to the National Archives. We wanted to give you a brief presentation on the free demands records freedmans banks records. Most people are not familiar with the record. Its here at the archives, we have the largest number of people we have coming our genealogical our Genealogical Researchers because due
Of the people that owned your families, if you are the descendent of an enslaved person. But from a genealogical perspective, it information on slaveholding families is the most important type of information you are going to get. Within the records of the slaveholding family, you will get records of your ancestors. I will not go too long into this. I know most of us are trying to get out before the snowstorm or ice storm. I know some of you have seen this photograph of the actual building as it existed. Today, 150 years ago, the bill the bank was officially signed into law by president lincoln. It was conceived initially by an abolitionist minister who was originally from new england. His name was john w alfred. During shermans march, he was a chaplain. He served the soldiers. As sherman marched through georgia, most of us are familiar with shermans special field order 15, which, after seeing the conditions of the recently free proclamation, since these population, he felt that since t
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