Description:Drawing on an extraordinary range of sources, Juliet E. K. Walker offers the only comprehensive survey of black business development to date. As far back as the 1600s, Africans in America, slave and free, seized every opportunity to participate in the commercial life of our developing nation. Walker moves beyond accounts of nameless blacks and tells triumphant stories of people like Madame C.J. Walker, the first female African-American millionaire, and Frederick Douglas Patterson, the first black automaker. She also provides many other examples of blacks who established businesses that paralleled mainstream American corporations, but who remain absent from the historical record. This unique chronicle puts right the long held assumption that African Americans lack an entrepreneurial tradition.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The History Black Business In America: Capitalism, Race, and Entrepreneurship. To get started finding The History Black Business In America: Capitalism, Race, and Entrepreneurship, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
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The History Black Business In America: Capitalism, Race, and Entrepreneurship
Description: Drawing on an extraordinary range of sources, Juliet E. K. Walker offers the only comprehensive survey of black business development to date. As far back as the 1600s, Africans in America, slave and free, seized every opportunity to participate in the commercial life of our developing nation. Walker moves beyond accounts of nameless blacks and tells triumphant stories of people like Madame C.J. Walker, the first female African-American millionaire, and Frederick Douglas Patterson, the first black automaker. She also provides many other examples of blacks who established businesses that paralleled mainstream American corporations, but who remain absent from the historical record. This unique chronicle puts right the long held assumption that African Americans lack an entrepreneurial tradition.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The History Black Business In America: Capitalism, Race, and Entrepreneurship. To get started finding The History Black Business In America: Capitalism, Race, and Entrepreneurship, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.