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Prince of darkness : the untold story of Jeremiah G. Hamilton, Wall Street's first black millionaire / Shane White.

White, Shane, (author.).

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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 1250070562
  • ISBN: 1250099811
  • ISBN: 9781250070562
  • ISBN: 9781250099815
  • Physical Description: 360 pages ; 25 cm
  • Edition: First edition
  • Publisher: New York : St. Martin's Press, 2015.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-354) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
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: Hamilton, Jeremiah G., -1875.
African American capitalists and financiers > Biography.
African Americans > Social conditions > 19th century.
Finance > United States > History > 19th century.
Millionaires > United States > Biography.
United States > Race relations > History > 19th century.
United States > Social conditions > 19th century.
Genre: Autobiographies.
Biographies.

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