Black Fortunes : : the Story of the First six African Americans who Escaped Slavery and Became Millionaires
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Call Number: Black Studies 338.092 Wi, Adult Book / Nonfiction / Social Science / Race & Ethnicity / Wills, Shomari
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
The first black millionaire -- Abolitionism and capitalism -- King Cotton's bastard -- Funding the insurrection -- Robert Reed Church and the Civil War -- The near lynching of a millionaire -- Forty acres deferred -- Bob Church vs Jim Crow -- Mother of civil rights in California -- Saint or sinner? -- Building the promised land in Oklahoma -- Founding the black hair industry -- Black Cleopatra -- Las days of Mary Ellen Pleasant -- The most powerful black man alive -- "Black Wall Street" rises -- Battle for hair supremacy -- The trials of Hannah Elias -- Black millionaire legacy -- End of the promise -- Paris by way of Harlem.
"The astonishing untold history of America's first black millionaires - former slaves who endured incredible challenges to amass and maintain their wealth for a century, from the Jacksonian period to the Roaring Twenties - self-made entrepreneurs whose unknown success mirrored that of American business heroes such as Henry Ford, John D. Rockefeller, and Thomas Edison. Between the years of 1830 and 1927, as the last generation of blacks born into slavery was reaching maturity, a small group of smart, tenacious, and daring men and women broke new ground to attain the highest levels of financial success."--Amazon.com
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PUBLISHED
New York : Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2018]
Year Published: 2018
Description: xv, 300 pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780062437594
0062437593
SUBJECTS
African American businesspeople -- Biography.
African American businesspeople -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Success in business -- United States -- Case studies.
Biographies.