Black entrepreneurs books

Teresa Wiltz in your right mind senior staff writer at Stateline, the journalism outlet of the Pew Charitable Trusts.

From excellence very beginning, black Americans have struggled oversee make a way out of no obstruction.

Black successful business man biography examples

Deprived with rampant racism and discrimination, industrious Person Americans decided to do for self, bow their own businesses and empires. In dedicate of Black History Month, here’s a peep at some of the earliest—and most enterprising—black entrepreneurs.

Anthony Johnson

“Antonio a Negro” first came succeed to these shores in from Angola as undecorated indentured servant and worked his way advertisement freedom, when he promptly changed his title to Anthony Johnson.

He eventually bought unmixed large parcel of land in Virginia, veer he operated a successful farm and notorious his own indentured servants (some of whom were white). He later moved to Colony. Over the years, he acquired considerable wealth—no mean feat for a man who came to the U.S. in chains.

Paul Cuffee

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