Karl Jacoby
Karl Jacoby
Awards
Winner — Organization of American Historians Ray Allen Billington Prize, 2017
Winner — Phillis Wheatley Book Award, 2017
Books by Karl Jacoby
The Strange Career of William Ellis: The Texas Slave Who Became a Mexican Millionaire
Hardback, 2016
A prize-winning historian tells a new story of the black experience in America through the life of a mysterious entrepreneur.
The Strange Career of William Ellis: The Texas Slave Who Became a Mexican Millionaire
E Book, 2016
A prize-winning historian tells a new story of the black experience in America through the life of a mysterious entrepreneur.
The Strange Career of William Ellis: The Texas Slave Who Became a Mexican Millionaire
Paperback, 2017
Winner of the Ray Allen Billington Prize and the Phillis Wheatley Book Award
"An American 'Odyssey,' the larger-than-life story of a man who travels far in the wake of war and gets by on his...