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03494aam a2200469 i 4500 001 A81BDDF638A911ED914067003BECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220920010102 008 180724r20192018nyuaf rb 001 0ceng d 020 $a 0062437593 020 $a 9780062437594 020 $a 9780062437600 020 $a 0062437607 035 $a (OCoLC)1045161215 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d OCLCQ $d MIBLS $d MAC $d FJD $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d BOS $d OCL $d OCLCO $d OCLCA $d OCLCQ $d OCLCO $d NUI $d SILO 043 $a n-us--- 050 4 $a HC102.5.A2 $b W55 2019 100 1 $a Wills, Shomari, $e author. 245 10 $a Black fortunes : $b the story of the first six African Americans who survived slavery and became millionaires / $c Shomari Wills. 250 $a First HarperCollins paperback edition. 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, $c 2019. 300 $a xv, 300 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : $b illustrations ; $c 21 cm 520 $a 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. --From publisher description. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-285) and index. 505 0 $a 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. 648 7 $a 1800-1899 $2 fast 650 0 $a African American businesspeople $v Biography. 650 0 $a African American businesspeople $z United States $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a African Americans $v Biography. 650 0 $a Success in business $z United States $v Case studies. 650 7 $a African American businesspeople. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00799064 650 7 $a African Americans. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00799558 650 7 $a Success in business. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01137062 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919896 655 7 $a Case studies. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01423765 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 lcgft 775 08 $i Reproduction of (manifestation): $a Wills, Shomari. $t Black fortunes : the story of the first six African Americans who escaped slavery and became millionaires. $d New York, NY : Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2018 $h xv, 300 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates ; 22 cm $w (OCoLC)986977379 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117022602.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=A81BDDF638A911ED914067003BECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search