Black fortunes : the story of the first six African Americans who escaped slavery and became millionaires / Shomari Wills.
"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 busines...
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Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers,
[2018]
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Edition: | First edition. |
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Physical Description: | xv, 300 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm |
Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Prologue : 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 versus Jim Crow
- Mother of civil rights in California
- Saint or sinner?
- Building the promised land in Oklahoma
- Founding the black hair industry
- Black Cleopatra
- Last 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.