|
|
Product Description
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 wealthy as a Wall Street banker, diplomat, and owner of scores of mines and haciendas south of the border. In The Strange Career of William Ellis, prize-winning historian Karl Jacoby weaves an astonishing tale of cunning and scandal, offering fresh insights on the history of the Reconstruction era, the US-Mexico border, and the abiding riddle of race in America.
8 pages of illustrationsFeatures
- NORTON
Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought
- Line in the Sand
- A Line In The Sand: The Alamo in Blood and Memory
- Big, Hot, Cheap, and Right: What America Can Learn from the Strange Genius of Texas
- Charleston in Black and White: Race and Power in the South after the Civil Rights Movement
- Goat Castle: A True Story of Murder, Race, and the Gothic South
- Big, Hot, Cheap, and Right
- Confessions Of An Argentine Dirty Warrior: A Firsthand Account Of Atrocity
- Texas and Northeastern Mexico, 1630-1690
- The World of Mexican Migrants: The Rock and the Hard Place
- The Chinese Must Go: Violence, Exclusion, and the Making of the Alien in America
*If this is not the "The Strange Career of William Ellis: The Texas Slave Who Became a Mexican Millionaire" product you were looking for, you can check the other results by clicking this link
.
Details were last updated on Jun 6, 2024 17:50 +08.
