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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Jacoby, Karl, 1965- (Author)
Language:	English
Published:	New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2016]
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Ellis, William Henry, > 1864-1923. African Americans > Biography. Enslaved persons > Texas > Biography. Businessmen > Mexico > Biography. Millionaires > Mexico > Biography. Mexican-American Border Region > Biography. Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) > Biography. Passing (Identity) > United States > History. United States > Race relations > History. African Americans > Texas > Politics and government. Biographies.
Genre:	Biography. Biographies.
Physical Description:	xxviii, 304 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Format:	Book

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