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Title Prince of darkness : the untold story of Jeremiah G. Hamilton, Wall Street's first black millionaire / Shane White.
Author White, Shane, author.
Publication Info. New York : St. Martin's Press, 2015.
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 Orlando Public Library (Downtown) - Third Floor  B HAMILTON    Checked Out
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Edition First edition.
Description 360 pages : illustration ; 25 cm
text rdacontent.
unmediated rdamedia.
volume rdacarrier.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-354) and index.
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 Traces the life of the man who defied convention 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.
Subject Hamilton, Jeremiah G., -1875.
African American capitalists and financiers -- Biography.
Millionaires -- United States -- Biography.
African Americans -- Social conditions -- 19th century -- Biography.
Finance -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Biography.
United States -- Social conditions -- 19th century -- Biography.
United States -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century -- Biography.
ISBN 1250070562 (hardcover) : $27.99
9781250070562 (hardcover)
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