Frontmatter

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. ILLUSTRATIONS x
4. FOREWORD xi
5. PREFACE xiii
6. CHAPTER I Isaac Hicks’s Advantages in 1789 1
7. CHAPTER II From Grocer to Dry Goods “Specialist” -1789-1794 24
8. CHAPTER III “We Are in the Shipping and Commission Line” 53
9. CHAPTER IV Oil Candles, and Ships —1796-1880 74
10. CHAPTER V Isaac Hicks Serves the South 91
11. CHAPTER VI Isaac Hicks Invests on His Own Account 108
12. CHAPTER VII A Life Free from Commercial Cares 132
13. CHAPTER VIII Capitalist and Quaker Reconsidered 154
14. BIBLIOGRAPHY 171
15. NOTES 181
16. Index 209