The Resource Black fortunes : the story of the first six African Americans who escaped slavery and became millionaires, Shomari Wills
Black fortunes : the story of the first six African Americans who escaped slavery and became millionaires, Shomari Wills
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The item Black fortunes : the story of the first six African Americans who escaped slavery and became millionaires, Shomari Wills represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Memorial Hall Library.
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- Summary
- "The astonishing untold 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 smart, tenacious, and daring men and women broke new ground to attain the highest levels of financial success."--Amazon.com
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- xv, 300 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates
- Note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-285) and index
- Contents
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- Introduction
- 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
- Epilogue
- Isbn
- 9780062437594
- Label
- Black fortunes : the story of the first six African Americans who escaped slavery and became millionaires
- Title
- Black fortunes
- Title remainder
- the story of the first six African Americans who escaped slavery and became millionaires
- Statement of responsibility
- Shomari Wills
- Subject
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- African American businesspeople -- Biography
- African American businesspeople -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- African Americans -- Biography
- Biographies
- Biographies
- Biography
- Case studies
- HISTORY / African American
- 1800-1899
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations
- Success in business
- Success in business -- United States -- Case studies
- United States
- History
- African American businesspeople
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "The astonishing untold 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 smart, tenacious, and daring men and women broke new ground to attain the highest levels of financial success."--Amazon.com
- Biography type
- collective biography
- Cataloging source
- YDX
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Wills, Shomari
- Dewey number
- 973/.0496073
- Illustrations
-
- illustrations
- plates
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- HC102.5.A2
- LC item number
- W55 2018
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- African American businesspeople
- African American businesspeople
- African Americans
- Success in business
- HISTORY / African American
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations
- African American businesspeople
- Success in business
- United States
- Label
- Black fortunes : the story of the first six African Americans who escaped slavery and became millionaires, Shomari Wills
- Note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-285) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Introduction -- 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 -- Epilogue
- Control code
- ocn986977379
- 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
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)986977379
- Label
- Black fortunes : the story of the first six African Americans who escaped slavery and became millionaires, Shomari Wills
- Note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-285) 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
- Introduction -- 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 -- Epilogue
- Control code
- ocn986977379
- 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
- System control number
- (OCoLC)986977379
Subject
- African American businesspeople -- Biography
- African American businesspeople -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- African Americans -- Biography
- Biographies
- Biographies
- Biography
- Case studies
- HISTORY / African American
- 1800-1899
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations
- Success in business
- Success in business -- United States -- Case studies
- United States
- History
- African American businesspeople
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