The strange career of William Ellis : the Texas slave who became a Mexican millionaire /

The strange career of William Ellis : the Texas slave who became a Mexican millionaire /

"A prize-winning historian tells a new story of the black experience in America through the life of a mysterious entrepreneur. To his contemporaries in Gilded Age Manhattan, Guillermo Eliseo was a fantastically wealthy Mexican, the proud owner of a luxury apartment overlooking Central Park, a b...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jacoby, Karl, 1965- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2016]
Edition:First Edition.
Subjects:
Ellis, William Henry, > 1864-1923.
African Americans > Biography.
Slaves > Texas > Biography.
Businessmen > Mexico > Biography.
Millionaires > Mexico > Biography.
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) > Biography.
Passing (Identity) > United States > History.
African Americans > Texas > Politics and government.
Mexican-American Border Region > Biography.
United States > Race relations > History.
Biographies.

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