Prince of Darkness: The Untold Story of Jeremiah Hamilton, Wall Street's First Black Millionaire

"A well-told, stereotype-busting tale about a nineteenth century black financier who dared to be larger than life, and got away with it!" —Elizabeth Dowling Taylor, New York Times–bestselling author

In the middle decades of the nineteenth century Jeremiah G. Hamilton was a well-known figure on Wall Street. Cornelius Vanderbilt, America's first tycoon, came to respect, grudgingly, his one-time opponent. Their rivalry even made it into Vanderbilt's obituary.

What Vanderbilt's obituary failed...