Prince of darkness : the untold story of Jeremiah G. Hamilton, Wall Street's first black millionaire / Shane White.
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TextPublisher: New York : St. Martin's Press, 2015Edition: First editionDescription: 360 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781250070562
- 1250070562
- 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
- 332.6092Â BÂ 23
- HG172.H36Â W45 2015
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [325]-354) and index.
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.
"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.
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