Financial History Issue 116 (Winter 2016) | Page 40

BOOK REVIEW  BY ROBERT E. WRIGHT

Prince of Darkness: The Untold Story of Jeremiah G.
Hamilton, Wall Street’s First Black Millionaire

By Shane White
St. Martin’s Press, 2015
317 pages, $27.99
Virtually unknown to historians of any
stripe, Jeremia ˈ[Z[ۈY[