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This Is Karen Hunter

S E250: Jeremiah Hamilton: Prince of Darkness

This Is Karen Hunter

Knarrative

Empowerment, Africana Studies, Greg Carr, Karen Hunter, History, Education, Society & Culture

4.5888 Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2020

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Jeremiah Hamilton, the wealthiest black man in America at the time of his death, was known as the Prince of Darkness on Wall Street in New York. You should know his name. And you should know his story.

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0:00.0

This is Karen Hunter and welcome to the hub. So I want to tell you about a guy named Jeremiah Hamilton. He was known as the Prince of Darkness.

0:18.5

I just finished reading a whole ass book on him, written by a historian who as I was reading it I was like this person

0:26.0

cannot be black and he isn't because there's certain cultural cues that you can

0:31.0

see that this person missed in telling a story about a man.

0:35.0

And from the book that I read before, this book that I'm going to talk about that we're all reading this year called

0:40.0

Black Fortunes by Shamari Wills.

0:42.0

In the book that I read called Prince of Darkness

0:44.6

about Jeremiah Hamilton it talks about him being taken from Africa and taken to

0:51.0

Espaiola which is known as Haiti.

0:52.8

It says the island that houses Haiti

0:55.5

in the Dominican Republic which is why it's so weird

0:58.0

that people who share an island have such hatred for one another

1:01.5

and by people who have such hatred, I'm talking about the

1:03.7

Dominican, the Dominican who have hatred for the Haitians and you share an island and bloodlines.

1:08.2

The only difference is that the Spaniards use missegenation as a form of conquering. So really you were dominated through

1:14.3

sperm, Dominican Republican people, and the Haitians are still the same people

1:19.4

that you are except they weren't infiltrated the way the people on the Spanish-speaking

1:26.0

side of the island war because the French did not use missegenation as a form of

1:30.0

conquering anyway but you have to read up on your own about Trio and all those other things

1:34.4

and maybe I'll drop some break crumbs here which I just did that will hopefully lead you

1:38.7

on a path to really understanding how conflicts rise you know and how people are taught to hate one another.

1:45.0

It is taught, listen, we don't come out the womb with hatred.

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