Prince of Darkness: The Untold Story of Jeremiah G. Hamilton, Wall Street S First Black Millionaire

by Shane White

Book Overview

Winner of the 2015 Society for Historians of the Early American Republic Best Book Prize: the amazing and forgotten story of Wall Street's first black millionaire in pre-Civil War New York

In the middle decades of the nineteenth century Jeremiah G. Hamilton was a well-known figure on Wall Street. Cornelius Vanderbilt, America's first tycoon, came to respect, grudgingly, his one-time opponent. The day after Vanderbilt's death...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1250070562
• ISBN13: 9781250070562
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.5"