This is a philanthropic and interdisciplinary history and biography of Walker and her company. Freeman offers a biography of Walker's life, with rich social, cultural and religious context, and persuasively argues the importance of centring her philanthropic actions and mission. With chapters on her background, her emphasis on education, her activism and more, Freeman offers a corrective to the study of American philanthropy which typically centres white male benefactors. Walker was unique in the world of donors due to her identity and how she operated. In particular, Freeman's comparisons between the structure, role and work of the Church and Walker's company are smart and incredibly helpful for thinking about how African American communities worked for racial uplift. With limited access to resources in a white supremacist society, Walker's company was another source of financial and spiritual support. Freeman's book makes a strong case for the importance of Walker to the study of church history. Much of Walker's religious formation happened in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, a denomination that emphasises charity, hard work and racial uplift. Freeman shows how Walker translated those tenets into her business model and philanthropic giving. He also attends to the gender dynamics of Black Churches, like the AME, and how it limited women's official leadership roles. From the Church, Walker learned how to effect change in her wider community without access to formal or assumed authority. It was in that context that she developed her ‘gospel of giving’. Though not cited, scholars of Black church history will immediately think of Womanist theologians like Katie Geneva Cannon and Monica Coleman when Freeman describes Walker's work as a ‘race woman’ whose work centred Black women's emotional and spiritual labour and value. Scholars and students of African American church history will surely benefit from reading Freeman's work.