Black fortunes : the story of the first six African Americans who escaped slavery and became millionaires, Shomari Wills

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The instance Black fortunes : the story of the first six African Americans who escaped slavery and became millionaires, Shomari Wills represents a material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Williamsburg Regional Library.

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Black fortunes : the story of the first six African Americans who escaped slavery and became millionaires, Shomari Wills

Title remainder

the story of the first six African Americans who escaped slavery and became millionaires

Statement of responsibility

Shomari Wills

Instantiates

• trueBlack fortunes : the story of the first six African Americans who escaped slavery and became millionaires

Publication

• New York, Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2018

Copyright

• ©2018

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Carrier category

volume

Carrier category code

nc

Carrier MARC source

rdacarrier

Content category

text

Content type code

txt

Content type MARC source

rdacontent

Contents

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 vs Jim Crow -- Mother of civil rights in California -- Saint or sinner? -- Building the promised land in Oklahoma -- Founding the black hair industry -- Black Cleopatra -- Las 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

Dimensions

22 cm

Edition

First edition.

Extent

xv, 300 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates

Isbn

9780062437594

Media category

unmediated

Media MARC source

rdamedia

Media type code

n

Other physical details

illustrations

Record ID

766686

System control number

• 986977379
• (OCoLC)986977379