Black Fortunes: The Story of the First Six African Americans Who Survived Slavery and Became Millionaires -- Shomari Wills, Paperback Laszlo I. Kish a division of Republic Records

a division of Republic Records

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" -Arthur Moyer

Black Fortunes: The Story of the First Six African Americans Who Survived Slavery and Became Millionaires -- Shomari Wills, Paperback Laszlo I. Kish a division of Republic Records"By telling the little known stories of six pioneering African American entrepreneurs, Black Fortunes makes a worthy contribution to black history, to business history, and to American history." Margot Lee Shetterly, New York Times Bestselling author of Hidden Figures 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