Black Fortunes: The Story of the First Six African Americans Who Escaped Slavery and Became Millionaires
Between the years of 1830 and 1927, as the last generation of blacks born into slavery was reaching maturity, a small group of industrious, tenacious, and daring men and women broke new ground to atta…
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