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SUMMARY:Do you know  Frederick Bruce Thomas?
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DESCRIPTION:\n	The Black Russian is the incredible true story of Frederi
	ck Bruce Thomas\, born in 1872 to former slaves who became prosperous farm
	ers in Mississippi. After his father was brutally murdered\, Frederick lef
	t the South and worked as a waiter in Chicago and Brooklyn. Seeking greate
	r freedom\, he traveled to London\, then crisscrossed Europe\, and�in a 
	highly unusual choice for a black American at the time�went to Russia.\n
	\n	Because he found no color line there\, Frederick settled in Moscow\, be
	coming a rich and famous owner of variety theaters and restaurants. When t
	he Bolshevik Revolution ruined him\, he barely escaped to Constantinople\,
	 where he made another fortune by opening celebrated nightclubs as the \"S
	ultan of Jazz.\" However\, the long arm of American racism\, the xenophobi
	a of the new Turkish Republic\, and Frederick’s own extravagance landed 
	him in debtor’s prison. He died in Constantinople in 1928.\n\n	https://a
	.co/d/7sHWnv0\n\n\n\n	 \n\n\n\n	referral from \n\n\n\n	Book Review Reque
	st: THE BLACK RUSSIAN &amp\; THE SERPENT'S STING by Vladimir Alexandrov - 
	Black Literature - African American Literature Book Club\n\n\n\n	\n\n	arti
	cle 1\n\n	https://www.rbth.com/literature/2013/04/17/the_black_russian_a_g
	ripping_journey_from_mississippi_to_moscow_25129.html\n\n	article 2\n\n	ht
	tps://blog.oup.com/2015/02/frederick-bruce-thomas-african-american-imperia
	l-russia/\n\n	wiki\n\n	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Bruce_Thoma
	s\n\n\n\n	\n\n\n\n	Frederick Bruce Thomas\, c. 1896\, Paris\n\n
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