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The Strange Career of William Ellis: The Texas Slave Who Became a Mexican Millionaire

By Karl Jacoby
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By Karl Jacoby
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Winner of the Ray Allen Billington Prize and the Phillis Wheatley Book Award


"An American 'Odyssey,' the larger-than-life story of a man who travels far in the wake of war and gets by on his adaptability and gift for gab." —Wall Street Journal

A black child born on the US-Mexico border in the twilight of slavery, William Ellis inhabited a world divided along ambiguous racial lines. Adopting the name Guillermo Eliseo, he passed as Mexican, transcending racial lines to become fabulously wealth...

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