| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 302 pages, [24] pages of plates) : illustrations, maps |
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data file rda |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-275) and index. |
| Summary |
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 Slave Ship to Harvard traces the family from the colonial period and the American Revolution through the Civil War to Harvard and finally today. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Contents |
Cover; Contents; Introduction; 1. Yarrow Mamout, a West African Muslim Slave; 2. Tobacco and the Importation of a Labor Force; 3. Welcome to America; 4. Slavery and Revolution; 5. Yarrow of Georgetown; 6. The Portraits: Peale, Yarrow, and Simpson; 7. Free Hannah, Yarrow's Sister; 8. Nancy Hillman, Yarrow's Niece; 9. Aquilla Yarrow; 10. Mary ''Polly'' Turner Yarrow; 11. Aquilla and Polly in Pleasant Valley; 12. Traces of Yarrow; 13. Unpleasant Valley; 14. Freedom; Illustrations; 15. From Harvard to Today; Epilogue: Guide to the Yarrows' and Turners' World Today; Notes; Bibliography. |
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Enslaved persons (OCoLC)fst01120522
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Social Scientists & Psychologists.
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Free African Americans (OCoLC)fst00933834
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Slavery -- Maryland -- History.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Slavery.
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Maryland (OCoLC)fst01204739
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Biography (OCoLC)fst01423686
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Free African Americans -- Maryland -- Biography.
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Mamout, Yarrow, 1736-1823.
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Slavery (OCoLC)fst01120426
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Enslaved persons -- Maryland -- Biography.
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Mamout, Yarrow, 1736-1823 (OCoLC)fst01942557
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History (OCoLC)fst01411628
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African American families -- Maryland -- Biography.
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African American families (OCoLC)fst00799152
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African Americans (OCoLC)fst00799558
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Mamout, Yarrow, 1736-1823 -- Family.
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Families (OCoLC)fst01728849
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African Americans -- Maryland -- Biography.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Johnston, James H., 1944- From slave ship to Harvard. New York : Fordham University Press, 2012 9780823239504 (DLC) 2011047006 (OCoLC)760975601 |
| ISBN |
9780823239535 (electronic bk.) |
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0823239535 (electronic bk.) |
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