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Title Prince of darkness : the untold story of Jeremiah G. Hamilton, Wall Street's first black millionaire / Shane White. Author White, Shane, author. Imprint New York : St. Martin's Press, 2015.
Location Call No. Note Status Fruitville Biography HAMILTON W ON SHELF Call # HAMILTON W Phys. Desc. 360 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm Bibliog. Includes bibliographical references (pages [325]-354) and index. Contents Introduction: Invisible man -- Haiti, 1828 -- Moving to New York -- The great fire, 1835 -- Business -- Jim Crow New York -- Real estate -- Bankruptcy -- Starting over -- The trial -- Wall Street -- Living with Jim Crow -- Making money -- To the draft riots -- Epilogue: a lion in winter. Summary "A prominent historian brings to life the story of a man who defied every convention of his time by becoming Wall Street's first black millionaire in pre-Civil War New York, marrying a white woman, owning railroad stock on trains he was not legally allowed to ride and outsmarting his contemporaries,"--NoveList. Subject Hamilton, Jeremiah G., -1875. African American capitalists and financiers -- Biography. Millionaires -- United States -- Biography. African Americans -- Social conditions -- 19th century. Finance -- United States -- History -- 19th century. United States -- Social conditions -- 19th century. United States -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century. Genre Biographies. lcgft ISBN 1250070562 9781250070562
