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The Strange Career of William Ellis: The Texas Slave Who Became a Mexican Millionaire
Karl Jacoby
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Hardcover. A prize-winning historian tells a new story of the black experience in America through the life of a mysterious entrepreneur. Num Pages: 368 pages, 1 map; 8 pages of illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KLCM; 3JH; 3JJ; BGH; HBJK; HBLL; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
A black child born in the twilight of slavery, William Henry Ellis inhabited a world of fraught, ambiguous racial categories on the anarchic border between the United States and Mexico. He adopted the name Guillermo Enrique Eliseo and passed as a Mexican. A shrewd businessman, he became fabulously wealthy and found himself involved in scandalous trials, unexpected disappearances and diplomatic controversies. Constantly switching identities, Eliseo identified and exploited the porousness of the colour line and the border line.
In The Strange Career of William Ellis, Karl Jacoby presents an intriguing narrative set in a secret and ever-changing world—that of Reconstruction ... Read more
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Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
633g
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780393239256
SKU
V9780393239256
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About Karl Jacoby
Karl Jacoby is a professor of history at Columbia University. The author of two previous books, he has won the Albert J. Beveridge Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship, among many other honors. He lives in New York.
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