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Yarrow Mamout and His Family
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Celebrate Black History Month by joining this presentation on the remarkable life of Yarrow Mamout, a slave who was freed at age 60.
Brought to Maryland on a slave ship in 1752 and enslaved for the next 40 years, Yarrow (his last name) didn't become a free man until he was 60 years old. He then acquired a house in Georgetown and enough money to retire on the interest from loans to white merchants and on stock dividends.
In 1819, the great portrait painter Charles Wilson Peale painted a portrait of him as a testament to racial equality. Our presenter for this fascinating story will be Jim Johnston, the author of From Slave Ship to Harvard: Yarrow Mamout and the History of an African American Family.
Offered in collaboration with the Montgomery Historical Society.
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