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Source: AHA Perspectives on History

March 23, 2016 (accessed)

Story of the Week: Wall Street's First Black Millionaire

by Elizabeth Elliott

Jeremiah Hamilton’s impressive and unlikely rise to infamy captured the attention of Australian Shane White, a professor of US history at the University of Sydney.