The Freedman's Savings and Trust Company
Subtitle: letters received by the commissioners, 1870-1914
By: editor, Robert E. Lester.
Contributors: Lester, Robert.; Gutberlet, Joseph C., 1979-
Series: Black studies research sources
Publisher: UPA collection from LexisNexis
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Bethesda, MD
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 24
Subjects: Freedman's Savings and Trust Company -- Archives; Freedmen -- United States -- History -- Sources; African Americans -- Genealogy
Genres: Sources; Genealogy
Other titles: Guide to the microfilm edition of the Freedman's Savings and Trust Company.
Description: Reproduces the records of the Freedman's Savings and Trust Company, a savings bank chartered by Congress in early 1865 for the benefit of ex-slaves. In an effort to protect the interests of depositors and their heirs in the event of a depositor's death, the bank collected a substantial amount of detailed information about each depositor and his or her family. While most of the surviving records relate to the bank and its collapse, they are still a useful source for genealogical data concerning African American families for the period following the Civil War.
Notes: Accompanied by a printed reel guide compiled by Joseph C. Gutberlet.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. Correspondence, loans, and bank books