John Jones, who born free in North Carolina in 1817, became one of the country's wealthiest African-American men during his time. Little is known about his youth. His mother was a black woman who used the surname of Jones, and his father was a German. Jones moved from North Carolina to Memphis, Tennessee, and finally […]
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