By James H. Johnston
ISBN-10: 0823239500
ISBN-13: 9780823239504
The biography of a notable person and the chronicle of a family's upward push from slavery to successful the yank dream.
From Slave send to Harvard is the genuine tale of an African American family members in Maryland over six generations. the writer has reconstructed a precise narrative of black fight and fulfillment from work, photos, books, diaries, court docket documents, criminal files, and oral histories. From Slave Ship to Harvard strains the relatives from the colonial interval and the yankee Revolution throughout the Civil warfare to Harvard and at last this present day.
Yarrow Mamout, the 1st of the relations in the United States, was once an informed Muslim from Guinea. He was once delivered to Maryland at the slave send Elijah and won his freedom forty-four years later. by way of then, Yarrow had turn into so popular within the Georgetown component of Washington, D.C., that he attracted the eye of the eminent American portrait painter Charles Willson Peale, who captured Yarrow's visage within the portray that looks at the disguise of this booklet. the writer right here unearths that Yarrow's speedy relatives-his sister, niece, spouse, and son-were amazing of their personal correct. His son married into the neighboring Turner kin, and the farm group in western Maryland known as Yarrowsburg was once named for Yarrow Mamout's daughter-in-law, Mary "Polly" Turner Yarrow. The Turner line eventually produced Robert Turner Ford, who graduated from Harvard college in 1927.
Just as Peale painted the portrait of Yarrow, James H. Johnston's new e-book places a face on slavery and paints the historical past of race in Maryland. it's a diverse photograph from what such a lot people think. Relationships among blacks and whites have been way more advanced, and the races extra depending on one another. thankfully, as this one family's event indicates, members of either races again and again advanced to minimize divisions and to maneuver the United States towards the varied society of this present day.
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Lucre and Taint in the Trade in Human Beings At the time Yarrow arrived, Bladensburg was still the commercial center for the Washington area. As the lives of two of the town’s merchants, David Ross and Christopher Lowndes, show, this commerce involved not only the export of tobacco and the import of finished goods and delicacies but the importation of human cargo as well. These were prominent men with connections at the highest level in early America. ’’ and was a physician. 38 He was sometimes a merchant.
Was married. 29 In the same year, fifteen miles to the south by water, the father of tenyear-old George Washington began construction of the Mount Vernon plantation. Life was good for the planters. Tobacco was making them rich. Some of those with plantations along the Anacostia also bought town lots in the new Bladensburg, but all the planters formed friendships and alliances with the warehousemen, merchants, and tobacco factors there. For more than a decade, the port was the principal commercial center for the planters in the Washington area.
Yarrow called himself Yero Mamadou, but Beall apparently heard and spelled it Yarrow Mamout. The spelling may have come from the yarrow plant, which abounds in Maryland, or from poems about the Yarrow River in Scotland, such as John Logan’s ‘‘Braes of Yarrow’’: w el co me to am er ic a | 47 Thy braes were bonny, Yarrow stream When first on them I met my lover Thy braes how dreary, Yarrow stream, When now thy waves his body cover! There are no port of entry or customs records with the names of Yarrow and the other slaves on the Elijah, or indeed for any slave ship into Annapolis.
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