The Untold Story of America's First Black Millionaire
The Leonard Lopate Show | Oct 14, 2015
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.
Event: Shane White will be speaking at The New York Society Library on Monday, October 19 6:30 p.m.
