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Author Wills, Shomari, author.

Title Black fortunes : the story of the first six African Americans who escaped slavery and became millionaires / Shomari Wills.

Edition First edition.
Publication Info. New York : Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2018]
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b1834243~S1
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 Nichols Adult Nonfiction  973.0496 WIL    AVAILABLE
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Description xv, 300 pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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
Subject African American businesspeople -- Biography.
African American businesspeople -- History -- 19th century.
Success in business -- United States -- Case studies.
ISBN 0062437593 (hardcover)
9780062437594 (hardcover)
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