Prince of darkness : the untold story of Jeremiah G. Hamilton, Wall Street's first black millionaire / Shane White
Object Details
- author
- White, Shane
- Subject
- Hamilton, Jeremiah G. -1875
- 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
- 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.
- 2015
- 19th century
- Type
- Biography
- Biographies
- History
- Physical description
- 360 pages ; 25 cm
- Place
- United States
- Smithsonian Libraries
- Topic
- African American capitalists and financiers
- Millionaires
- African Americans--Social conditions
- Finance--History
- Social conditions
- Race relations
- History
- Record ID
- siris_sil_1048885
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
