Between 1830 and 1927, as the last generation of black people born into enslavement was reaching maturity, a small group of daring men and women broke new ground to attain the highest levels of financial success. Black Fortunes is the astonishing untold history of America’s first black millionaires! Self-Made Entrepreneurs who endured incredible challenges to amass their personal fortunes. Including an adventurer, a landowner, a self-taught chemist, a millionaire’s mistress, a schoolteacher, and a flamboyant rebel. Inspiring and surprising, Black Fortunes illuminates as never before The Rebirth of the black business titan!
Black Fortunes 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 Black entrepreneurs whose unknown heroic success showed more promise than that of American businessmen such as Henry Ford, John D. Rockefeller, and Thomas Edison. This Little known but Hugely Impactful information is necessary and inspiring! A Must Read all of our households!
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