The strange career of William Ellis : the Texas slave who became a Mexican millionaire / Karl Jacoby.
"A prize-winning historian tells a new story of the black experience in America through the life of a mysterious entrepreneur. To his contemporaries in Gilded Age Manhattan, Guillermo Eliseo was a fantastically wealthy Mexican, the proud owner of a luxury apartment overlooking Central Park, a busy W...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
W.W. Norton & Company,
[2016]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Physical Description: | xxviii, 304 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm |
| Format: | Book |