Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. “I Am Yet Waitin”: African American Women and Free Labor Banking Experiments in the Emancipation- Era South, 1860s– 1900 13
6. 2. “Who Is So Helpless as the Negro Woman?”: The Independent Order of St. Luke and the Quest for Economic Security, 1856– 1902 41
7. 3. “Let Us Have a Bank”: St. Luke Penny Savings Bank, Economic Activism, and State Regulation, 1903 to World War I 73
8. 4. Rituals of Risk and Respectability: Gendered Economic Practices, Credit, and Debt to World War I 112
9. 5. “A Good, Strong, Hustling Woman”: Financing the New Negro in the New Era, 1920– 1929 150
10. Epilogue 192
11. Appendix 197
12. Notes 199
13. Selected Bibliography 257
14. Index 267