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Prince of Darkness : : the Untold Story of Jeremiah G. Hamilton, Wall Street's First Black Millionaire

White, Shane. Book - 2015 921 Hamilton, Jeremiah G., Black Studies 921 Hamilton, Jeremiah G. 2 On Shelf No requests on this item Community Rating: 3 out of 5

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Call Number: 921 Hamilton, Jeremiah G., Black Studies 921 Hamilton, Jeremiah G.
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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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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