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9780393354171

The Strange Career of William Ellis The Texas Slave Who Became a Mexican Millionaire

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  • ISBN13:

    9780393354171

  • ISBN10:

    0393354172

  • Edition: Reprint
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2017-06-06
  • Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

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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.

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