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Banking on Freedom: Black Women in U.S. Finance Before the New Deal. By Shennette Garrett-Scott. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2019. Pp. 288. $105.00, hardback; $35.00, paper.

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Banking on Freedom: Black Women in U.S. Finance Before the New Deal. By Shennette Garrett-Scott. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2019. Pp. 288. $105.00, hardback; $35.00, paper.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 November 2019

Geoffrey Clarke
Geoffrey Clarke*
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Brandeis University
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The Journal of Economic History , Volume 79 , Issue 4 , December 2019 , pp. 1198 - 1200
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