Prince of Darkness - The Untold Story of Jeremiah G. Hamilton, Wall Street’s First Black Millionaire

In the middle decades of the nineteenth century, Jeremiah G. Hamilton was a well-known figure on Wall Street. And Hamilton was African American. Although his origins were lowly, possibly slave, he was reportedly the richest black man in the United States, possessing a fortune of two million, or in excess of two hundred and fifty million in today's currency. In Prince of Darkness: The Untold Story of Jeremiah G. Hamilton, Wall Street's First Black Millionaire, a groundbreaking account, eminent historian Shane White reveals the larger-than-life story of a man who defied every convention of his time.

List of contents

1. Haiti, 1828
2. Moving to New York
3. The Great Fire, 1835
4. Business
5. Jim Crow New York
6. Real Estate
7. Bankruptcy
8. Starting Over
9. The Trial
10. Wall Street
11. Living with Jim Crow
12. Making Money
13. To the Draft Riots
Epilogue: A Lion in Winter

Acknowledgments
Notes
Index

About the author

SHANE WHITE is the Challis Professor of History and an Australian Professorial Fellow in the History Department at the University of Sydney specializing in African-American history. He has authored or co-authored five books, including Playing the Numbers, and collaborated in the construction of the website Digital Harlem. Each project has won at least one important prize for excellence from institutions as varied as the American Historical Association and the American Library Association. He lives in Sydney, Australia.

Summary

The amazing and forgotten story of Wall Street's first black millionaire in pre-Civil War New York.

Product details

• Authors: Shane White, White Shane
• Publisher: Harper Collins
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2016
• EAN: 9781250099815
• ISBN: 978-1-250-09981-5
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 139 mm x 208 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 316 g
• Illustrations: Includes one black-and-white photograph
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; Haiti, Afrikanische Geschichte, Business & Economics / Investments & Securities / General, Biography: business & industry, Biografien: Wirtschaft und Industrie, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Business, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural Heritage, Biography / Autobiography, HISTORY / African American, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, History of the Americas, Biography: business and industry, Investment & securities, Investment and securities, HISTORY / Caribbean & West Indies / Haiti