Prince of darkness

By Shane White

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

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.