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\nJeremiah G. Hamilton is otherwise known as the “Prince of Darkness” may have been born somewhere in the West Indies or perhaps the city of Richmond, Virginia on May 27, 1807.The story of Jeremiah Hamilton’s life disrupts the tidy view...\nJeremiah G. Hamilton is otherwise known as the “Prince of Darkness” may have been born somewhere in the West Indies or perhaps the city of Richmond, Virginia on May 27, 1807.

The story of Jeremiah Hamilton’s life disrupts the tidy view that the financial powerhouse of Wall Street was quintessentially white, totally segregated from the African-American past. When Hamilton died in May 1875, obituaries called him the richest black man in the United States, possessing a fortune of $2 million, or in excess of $250 million today.

He lived out the American nightmare of race in his own distinctive fashion, and it would be some time before New York City would see his like again.\n
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3:24
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9th - Higher Ed
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Social Studies & History
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\nThe Black History Buff\n\n
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2020
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English
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