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Black fortunes : the story of the first six African Americans who escaped slavery and became millionaires
Summary:
Provides a 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 business heroes such as Henry Ford, John D. Rockefeller, and Thomas Edison. Between the years of 1830 and 1927, as the last generation of blacks born into slavery was reaching maturity, a small group of men and women broke new ground to attain the highest levels of financial success. --From publisher description.
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.
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.
Item details
- ISBN: 9780062437594
- ISBN: 0062437593
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Physical Description:
print
xv, 300 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York, NY : Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2018]
- Copyright: ©2018
Contents / Notes
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-285) and index.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- 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.
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