02489 am 2200613 n 450 9910294541503321201811202-7226-0500-710.4000/books.cdf.5807(CKB)4100000007159142(FrMaCLE)OB-cdf-5807(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/60883(PPN)267931727(EXLCZ)99410000000715914220181120j|||||||| ||| 0enguu||||||m||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThese Shreds, Guardians of Human Memory: Papyrus and Culture in Late Antiquity Inaugural Lecture delivered on Thursday 7 January 2016 /Jean-Luc FournetParis Collège de France2018Papyrology, which burgeoned in the nineteenth century after the discovery of thousands of papyri in Egypt, consists in the study of Greek and Latin texts written on a transportable medium (papyrus, clay potsherds, wooden tablets or parchment). While inscriptions and literary sources can render a normative, idealized and sometimes deformed image of individuals, papyri – no matter how fragmented they may be – take us into their daily lives, thus making possible the archaeology of cultural practices. Attempting to decipher “these shreds, guardians of the human memory” – to paraphrase Leonardo de Vinci – is the challenge of the papyrologist, who ceaselessly renews our knowledge of the past.These Shreds, Guardians of Human MemoryHistoryLiteratureLate AntiquitypapyrologyEgyptpaleographyGreekmultilingualismpapyrologypaleographyEgyptLate AntiquityGreekmultilingualismHistoryLiteratureLate AntiquitypapyrologyEgyptpaleographyGreekmultilingualismFournet Jean-Luc474458Fournet Jean-Luc474458Grimal Nicolas290873FR-FrMaCLEBOOK9910294541503321These Shreds, Guardians of Human Memory: Papyrus and Culture in Late Antiquity3389655UNINA05214nam 2200913 a 450 991078826920332120230328223129.00-8232-3952-70-8232-4666-31-280-77754-097866136879370-8232-3953-510.1515/9780823239535(CKB)3170000000046208(EBL)943384(OCoLC)795705237(SSID)ssj0000600627(PQKBManifestationID)11379085(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000600627(PQKBWorkID)10600935(PQKB)11286233(MiAaPQ)EBC3239632(OCoLC)830023768(MdBmJHUP)muse14139(DE-B1597)555125(DE-B1597)9780823239535(MiAaPQ)EBC943384(Au-PeEL)EBL3239632(CaPaEBR)ebr10561964(CaONFJC)MIL368793(OCoLC)1175639291(Au-PeEL)EBL943384(MiAaPQ)EBC4704475(MiAaPQ)EBC30251513(Au-PeEL)EBL30251513(EXLCZ)99317000000004620820111117d2012 uy 0engurnn#---|u||utxtccrFrom slave ship to Harvard[electronic resource] Yarrow Mamout and the history of an African American family /James H. Johnston1st ed.New York Fordham University Press20121 online resource (337 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8232-3951-9 0-8232-3950-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --Contents --Introduction --1. Yarrow Mamout, a West African Muslim Slave --2. Tobacco and the Importation of a Labor Force --3. Welcome to America --4. Slavery and Revolution --5. Yarrow of Georgetown --6. The Portraits: Peale, Yarrow, and Simpson --7. Free Hannah, Yarrow’s Sister --8. Nancy Hillman, Yarrow’s Niece --9. Aquilla Yarrow --10. Mary ‘‘Polly’’ Turner Yarrow --11. Aquilla and Polly in Pleasant Valley --12. Traces of Yarrow --13. Unpleasant Valley --14. Freedom --15. From Harvard to Today --Epilogue: Guide to the Yarrows’ and Turners’ World Today --Notes --Bibliography --Acknowledgments --IndexFrom Slave Ship to Harvard is the true story of an African American family in Maryland over six generations. The author has reconstructed a unique narrative of black struggle and achievement from paintings, photographs, books, diaries, court records, legal documents, and oral histories. From Slave Ship to Harvard traces the family from the colonial period and the American Revolution through the Civil War to Harvard and finally today.Yarrow Mamout, the first of the family in America, was an educated Muslim from Guinea. He was brought to Maryland on the slave ship Elijah and gained his freedom forty-four years later. By then, Yarrow had become so well known in the Georgetown section of Washington, D.C., that he attracted the attention of the eminent American portrait painter Charles Willson Peale, who captured Yarrow’s visage in the painting that appears on the cover of this book. The author here reveals that Yarrow’s immediate relatives—his sister, niece, wife, and son—were notable in their own right. His son married into the neighboring Turner family, and the farm community in western Maryland called Yarrowsburg was named for Yarrow Mamout’s daughter-in-law, Mary “Polly” Turner Yarrow. The Turner line ultimately produced Robert Turner Ford, who graduated from Harvard University in 1927.Just as Peale painted the portrait of Yarrow, James H. Johnston’s new book puts a face on slavery and paints the history of race in Maryland. It is a different picture from what most of us imagine. Relationships between blacks and whites were far more complex, and the races more dependent on each other. Fortunately, as this one family’s experience shows, individuals of both races repeatedly stepped forward to lessen divisions and to move America toward the diverse society of today.Enslaved personsMarylandBiographyFree African AmericansMarylandBiographyAfrican AmericansMarylandBiographySlaveryMarylandHistoryAfrican American familiesMarylandBiographyBlack Muslims.Black history.Colonial America.Maryland.Slavery.Yarrow Mamout.slave trade.Enslaved personsFree African AmericansAfrican AmericansSlaveryHistory.African American families306.3/62092BJohnston James H.1944-1466715MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910788269203321From slave ship to Harvard3677293UNINA