The Plunder of Black AmericaThe long history of the racial wealth gap in America told through the stories of seven Black families who struggled to build wealth over multiple generations Wealth is central to the American pursuit of happiness and is an overriding measure of well being. Yet wealth is conspicuously absent from African American households. Why do some 3. 5 million Black American families have zero or negative wealth? Historian Calvin Schermerhorn traces four hundred