LEADER 04913nam 2200805 a 450 001 9910463516403321 005 20211014005001.0 010 $a0-8232-3952-7 010 $a0-8232-4666-3 010 $a1-280-77754-0 010 $a9786613687937 010 $a0-8232-3953-5 024 7 $a10.1515/9780823239535 035 $a(CKB)3170000000046208 035 $a(EBL)943384 035 $a(OCoLC)795705237 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000600627 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11379085 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000600627 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10600935 035 $a(PQKB)11286233 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3239632 035 $a(OCoLC)830023768 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse14139 035 $a(DE-B1597)555125 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780823239535 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC943384 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3239632 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10561964 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL368793 035 $a(OCoLC)1175639291 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL943384 035 $a(EXLCZ)993170000000046208 100 $a20111117d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aFrom slave ship to Harvard$b[electronic resource] $eYarrow Mamout and the history of an African American family /$fJames H. Johnston 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew York $cFordham University Press$d2012 215 $a1 online resource (337 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-8232-3951-9 311 0 $a0-8232-3950-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIntroduction --$t1. Yarrow Mamout, a West African Muslim Slave --$t2. Tobacco and the Importation of a Labor Force --$t3. Welcome to America --$t4. Slavery and Revolution --$t5. Yarrow of Georgetown --$t6. The Portraits: Peale, Yarrow, and Simpson --$t7. Free Hannah, Yarrow?s Sister --$t8. Nancy Hillman, Yarrow?s Niece --$t9. Aquilla Yarrow --$t10. Mary ??Polly?? Turner Yarrow --$t11. Aquilla and Polly in Pleasant Valley --$t12. Traces of Yarrow --$t13. Unpleasant Valley --$t14. Freedom --$t15. From Harvard to Today --$tEpilogue: Guide to the Yarrows? and Turners? World Today --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tAcknowledgments --$tIndex 330 $aFrom 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. 606 $aSlaves$zMaryland$vBiography 606 $aFree African Americans$zMaryland$vBiography 606 $aAfrican Americans$zMaryland$vBiography 606 $aSlavery$zMaryland$xHistory 606 $aAfrican American families$zMaryland$vBiography 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aSlaves 615 0$aFree African Americans 615 0$aAfrican Americans 615 0$aSlavery$xHistory. 615 0$aAfrican American families 676 $a306.3/62092 676 $aB 700 $aJohnston$b James H.$f1944-$01034171 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910463516403321 996 $aFrom slave ship to Harvard$92453134 997 $aUNINA