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

by Karl Jacoby

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 039323925X
• ISBN13: 9780393239256
• Release Date: June 2016
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.5"