From Slave Ship to Harvard

From Slave Ship to Harvard

Author: James H. Johnston

Publisher: Fordham Univ Press

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 313

ISBN-13: 0823239500

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A true story of six generations of an African American family in Maryland. Based on paintings, photographs, books, diaries, court records, legal documents, and oral histories, the book traces Yarrow Mamout and his in-laws, the Turners, from the colonial period through the Civil War to Harvard and finally the present day.