Prince of darkness

Description:

"A prominent historian brings to life the story of a man who defied every convention of his time by becoming Wall Street's first black millionaire in pre-Civil War New York, marrying a white woman, owning railroad stock on trains he was not legally allowed to ride and outsmarting his contemporaries,"--NoveList.

subjects: Race relations,  Finance,  Millionaires,  African American capitalists and financiers,  Social conditions,  African Americans,  Biography,  History,  Capitalists and financiers,  Millionaires, biography,  African americans, social conditions,  Finance, united states,  United states, social conditions,  United states, race relations

People: Jeremiah G. Hamilton (-1875)

Places: United States

Times: 19th century