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The Strange Career of William Ellis: The Texas Slave Who Became a Mexican Millionaire AUTH-13040596 The authors have opened anotherA 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 wealthy as a Wall Street banker, diplomat, and owner of scores of mines and haciendas south of the border. In The Strange Career of William Ellis, prize winning historian Karl Jacoby weaves an astonishing tale