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1) Prince of darkness: the untold story of Jeremiah G. Hamilton, Wall Street's first black millionaire
Author
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
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...
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