Prince of darkness : the untold story of Jeremiah G. Hamilton, Wall Street's first black millionaire
Title:
Prince of darkness : the untold story of Jeremiah G. Hamilton, Wall Street's first black millionaire
Author:
White, Shane, author.
Personal Author:
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York : St. Martin's Press, 2015.
©2015
Physical Description:
360 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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.
Language:
English
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.
Subject Term:
ISBN:
9781250070562
Format :
Book
