@lowcountrychronicles: The Lowcountry’s Secret Bankers: How Freedmen Built Their Own Economy By the 1880s, freedmen across the South Carolina coast were fighting a new kind of war, not with weapons, but with debt. When white merchants tried to control every seed, loan, and cotton gin, they fought back with something powerful: cooperation. They built their own alliances, ran their own credit unions, and created a blueprint for the Black-owned banks that still exist today. This is what it means to build together, and never be bought out. Colored Farmers’ Alliance Lowcountry history Black farmers South Carolina Black-owned banks Beaufort history Hampton County history Colleton County history Reconstruction era Southern cooperatives African American resilience Hidden history of the South #History #LearnOnTikTok #lowcountry #southcarolina #blackhistory

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