From Slave Ship to Harvard - Yarrow Mamout and the History of an African American Family

Informationen zum Autor James H. Johnston Klappentext The biography of a remarkable individual and the chronicle of a family's rise from slavery to winning the American dream. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: James H. Johnston
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.05.2012
• EAN: 9780823239504
• ISBN: 978-0-8232-3950-4
• No. of pages: 310
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Biographies, autobiographies; Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, Amerikanische Geschichte, Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte, Heimatkunde