Black fortunes: the story of the first six African Americans who survived slavery and became millionaires [First HarperCollins paperback edition] 9780062437594, 9780062437549, 0062437593, 9780062437600, 0062437607
Provides a history of America's first black millionaires--former slaves who endured incredible challenges to amass
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English Pages xv, 300 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm Year 2019;2017
Table of 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.
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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