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

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 | #3982822 in Books |  2016-06-15 | Formats: Audiobook, MP3 Audio, Unabridged | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  7.40 x.60 x5.30l, | Running time: 9 Hours | Binding: Audio CD

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||5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.| True story of how a Texas plantation slave reinvented himself as a wealthy and sophisticated Mexican tycoon.|By JBKing|Interesting look at a man, William Ellis, who transcended his birth and childhood as a plantation slave in south Texas to take on a persona of an elegant, successful Mexican entrepreneur. Mr. Jacoby provides a great deal of historical background into that time| |"Readers will gain fresh insight into life during Reconstruction as well as the riddle of racial identities." ---Library Journal Starred|About the Author|Karl Jacoby is a professor of history at Columbia University. The

To his contemporaries in Gilded Age Manhattan, Guillermo Eliseo was a fantastically wealthy Mexican, the proud owner of a luxury apartment overlooking Central Park, a busy Wall Street office, and scores of mines and haciendas in Mexico. But for all his obvious riches and his elegant appearance, Eliseo was also the possessor of a devastating secret: he was not, in fact, from Mexico at all. Rather, he had begun life as a slave named William Ellis, born on a cotton plantati...

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