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Prince of darkness : the untold story of Jeremiah G. Hamilton, Wall Street's first black millionaire / Shane White.
Lippincott Library HG172.H36 W45 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- White, Shane, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hamilton, Jeremiah G., -1875.
- Hamilton, Jeremiah G.
- African American capitalists and financiers--Biography.
- African American capitalists and financiers.
- Millionaires--United States--Biography.
- Millionaires.
- Race relations.
- History.
- Finance.
- African Americans--Social conditions.
- United States.
- African Americans--Social conditions--19th century.
- African Americans.
- Finance--United States--History--19th century.
- United States--Social conditions--19th century.
- Social conditions.
- United States--Race relations--History--19th century.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 360 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : St. Martin's Press, 2015.
- 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.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [325]-354) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781250070562
- 1250070562
- OCLC:
- 913712160
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