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From Slave Ship to Harvard - Yarrow Mamout and the History of an African American Family (Hardcover)
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From Slave Ship to Harvard - Yarrow Mamout and the History of an African American Family (Hardcover)
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The biography of a remarkable individual and the chronicle of a
family's rise from slavery to winning the American dream.
From 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 SlaveShip 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.
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