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

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

Karl Jacoby

352 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction biography history challenging informative slow-paced
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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 w...

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