The author presents the world with the life of a little-known but important figure in African American history - Arthur W. Sewell - America's first African American male millionaire. This is not a book about "firsts," it is a story about "success" mixed with the complexities of Arthur Sewell being black in the antebellum South and further complicated with the responsibility of safeguarding a large fortune for two little black boys - his two sons, due to the discovery of oil on his land in Arkansas during the early 1900s. The story is told with a facile pen and in a charming style narrated by Sewell. Hopefully, it will be an inspiration to the many who view themselves through lowly vistas who are hopelessly being clutched in the vise grips of the mighty greed of big corporations and the dazzling conundrum of legal shenanigans of ruthless lawyers and the American court system. It is a pathetic story of an earnest, deathless, determined African American father beset by many difficulties but used them as stepping stones to accomplish his goal of safely guarding his children's' inheritance. It is history and biography having a setting and subject which alone are interesting. The clearness and general style in presentation of the sordid details will show a keen insight and apt in the skillful compilation of many scattered and tragic facts encountered by Mr. Sewell.