Prince of Darkness: The Untold Story of Jeremiah G. Hamilton, Wall Street S First Black Millionaire, Hardcover
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Winner of the 2015 Society for Historians of the Early American
Republic Best Book Prize 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 on January 4, 1877, an almost full-page obituary
on the front of the National Republican acknowledged that, in the
context of his Wall Street share transactions, "There was only one
man who ever fought the Commodore to the end, and that was Jeremiah
Hamilton." What Vanderbilt's obituary failed to mention, perhaps as
contemporaries already knew it well, was that Hamilton was African
American. Hamilton, although his origins were lowly, possibly
slave, was reportedly the richest colored man in the United States,
possessing a fortune of $2 million, or in excess of two hundred and
$50 million in today's currency. In Prince of Darkness, a
groundbreaking and vivid account, eminent historian Shane White
reveals the larger than life story of a man who defied every
convention of his time. He wheeled and dealed in the lily white
business world, he married a white woman, he bought a mansion in
rural New Jersey, he owned railroad stock on trains he was not
legally allowed to ride, and generally set his white contemporaries
teeth on edge when he wasn't just plain outsmarting them. An
important contribution to American history, Hamilton's life offers
a way into considering, from the unusual perspective of a black
man, subjects that are usually seen as being quintessentially
white, totally segregated from the African American past.
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