The Untold Story of America's First Black Millionaire

"View in Wall Street from Corner of Broadway", New York. Engraving from Eighty Years' Progress of the United States

Historian Shane White discusses his new book, Prince of Darkness: The Untold Story of Jeremiah G. Hamilton, Wall Street's First Black Millionaire. Despite Hamilton's lowly upbringing, he achieved success and amassed a two million dollar fortune in the mid-nineteenth century, becoming the richest African American in the U.S. at that time.

EventShane White will be speaking at The New York Society Library on Monday, October 19 6:30 p.m.