360 pages
English language
Published Aug. 27, 2015
Prince of darkness
the untold story of Jeremiah G. Hamilton, Wall Street's first black millionaire
by Shane White
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"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.
Subjects
- Race relations
- Finance
- Millionaires
- African American capitalists and financiers
- Social conditions
- African Americans
- Biography
- History
Places
- United States