Black fortunes : the story of the first six African Americans who survived slavery and became millionaires
Record details
- ISBN: 0062437607
- ISBN: 9780062437600
- ISBN: 9780062437594
- ISBN: 0062437593
- Physical Description: xv, 300 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Edition: First HarperCollins paperback edition.
- Publisher: New York, NY : Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2019.
- Copyright: ©2018
Content descriptions
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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Genre: | Biographies. Case studies. History. Biographies. |
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Coldwater Branch | 973.0496 WIL (Text) | 35401425187050 | Non-Fiction | Available | - |