Description of data collection efforts on two previously unavailable sources, the passbooks to new accounts (about 500 of which were preserved following the failure of the bank and the subsequent efforts to return funds to depositors), and the dividend repayment records, which tracked payment to about 40,000 account holders following the bank’s failure. When combined with the separate indices to new accounts records, available via FamilySearch.org, this dataset represents the available data on the Freedman’s Bank depositor base as it relates to account openings, operations, and closures.
Traweek, Virginia, and Malcolm Wardlaw. “Freedman’s Savings and Trust Bank Passbook and Dividend Repayment Records.” Journal of Slavery and Data Preservation 3, no. 1 (2022). https://doi.org/10.25971/7jn5-5x58.
Details the collection and transcription of records for the availble passbooks located in the National Archives and the set of high quality photographs of these records.
Details the transcription of records for the availble dividend ledgers created by the Comptroller of the Currency to track the resolution of the bank. These records contain a full list of all accounts which remained open as of the failure of the bank in July of 1874.