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

By:

Wills, Shomari

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York HarperCollins Publishers 2018Description: xv, 300p., 8 unnumbered pages of plates : ill., portraits ; 22 cmISBN:

9780062437594

Subject(s):

African American businesspeople--Biography

DDC classification:

973.049WIL

Summary: Provides a history of America's first black millionaires--former slaves who endured incredible challenges to amass and maintain their wealth for a century, from the Jacksonian period to the Roaring Twenties--self-made entrepreneurs whose unknown success mirrored that of American business heroes such as Henry Ford, John D. Rockefeller, and Thomas Edison. Between the years of 1830 and 1927, as the last generation of blacks born into slavery was reaching maturity, a small group of men and women broke new ground to attain the highest levels of financial success.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Provides a history of America's first black millionaires--former slaves who endured incredible challenges to amass and maintain their wealth for a century, from the Jacksonian period to the Roaring Twenties--self-made entrepreneurs whose unknown success mirrored that of American business heroes such as Henry Ford, John D. Rockefeller, and Thomas Edison. Between the years of 1830 and 1927, as the last generation of blacks born into slavery was reaching maturity, a small group of men and women broke new ground to attain the highest levels of financial success.

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