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Yarrow Mamout

American entrepreneur and property owner

Yarrow Mamout (c. – January 19, )[1][2] was a formerly enslaved African entrepreneur and property owner in Georgetown, Washington, D.C. An educated Fulani Muslim, he gained his freedom in after 44 years held in bondage.

James Alexander Simpson and Charles Willson Peale painted his portrait, Peale's being held in the Philadelphia Museum of Art.[3]

Early life

Yarrow was born in West Africa circa His African name was probably Mamadou Yarrow (the name Yarrow Mamout was popularized through the diary of his portraitist, Charles Willson Peale).[4][5] He was kidnapped, enslaved, and taken to Annapolis, Maryland, from Guinea in on the slave ship Elijah.

A member of the Fulani people, he spoke the Fula language and could read and write Arabic and rudimentary English.[3] Historians believe that he came from a wealthy and educated Muslim family.[6][7]

Slavery

Upon his arrival in Maryland, Yarrow was sold to Samuel Beall, who owned a plantation in Takoma Park.

He became Beall's manservant and later served his son, Brooke.

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By , Yarrow had moved with Beall to Georgetown and begun hiring himself out for wages. According to contemporary sources, Beall required him to turn over wages he earned during the day but allowed him to keep wages he received for nocturnal work. He became a jack of all trades, working as a brickmaker, charcoal burner, basket weaver, cart driver, and stevedore, working long hours to earn enough money to buy his freedom.[3]

After 44 years in slavery, Yarrow was freed at the age of 60 when Brooke Beall died in , manumitted by his enslavers who believed he was too old to work anymore.

He immediately spent £20 to buy and free his seven-year-old son, Aquilla, who had been born into slavery on a neighboring farm.

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In , after eight years of research, Johnston published “From Slave Ship to Harvard: Yarrow Mamout and the History of an African American Family,” a biography that chronicles Mamout’s life and accomplishments.

Little is known of the boy's mother.[4]

Freedom

Yarrow amassed savings of $ and became one of the first investors in the successful Columbia Bank of Georgetown.[3] In , he purchased a lot located at Dent Place NW in Georgetown, valued in a tax assessment at $ He constructed a log house on the land.

By , the property had an assessed value of $ (~$11, in ).[7] Yarrow lived quietly on the dividends of his bank stock. He remained a devout, lifelong Muslim, praying regularly and avoiding the consumption of pork and liquor.[4]

On March 23, , Yarrow loaned $ (~$3, in ) to a white merchant named William Hayman to help purchase a warehouse.

Hayman defaulted on the loan after Yarrow's death, but Nancy Hillman, the daughter of Yarrow's sister, sued to recoup the loss in She received $ from the foreclosure and sale of the warehouse in [4]

Yarrow died on January 19, , at the approximate age of According to his obituary, penned by Charles Willson Peale, he was buried in the corner of his yard where he was accustomed to pray; however, a archaeological dig failed to unearth any remains.[8][9] Peale's obituary was published in the Gettysburg Compiler and was reproduced in 38 newspapers across the United States, testifying to the unique life story of the enslaved African Muslim turned entrepreneur and property owner.[4]

Descendants

Two years after his father's death, Aquilla purchased a farm in Washington County, Maryland, and moved there with his wife, Mary "Polly" Turner, a midwife and former slave.

The community of Yarrowsburg, Maryland, was named in her honor.

Yarrow mammoet biography channel 7 Thanks, Metropolitan, for sharing this excellent documentary. I’m familiar with the portrait of Yarrow in Georgetown’s Peabody Room, but was unaware of the Peale portrait at Philadelphia’s Museum of Art, which is even better (the artist, after all, WAS Charles Willson Peale:).

Her great-grandnephew, Robert Turner Ford, graduated from Harvard University in [4]

Portraits

There are two known portraits of Yarrow, painted by James Alexander Simpson and Charles Willson Peale. Painted in , Peale's portrait showed Yarrow at the age of 83, though rumor put his age at Simpson painted Yarrow's portrait in [4][5][7] They are held in the permanent collections of the District of Columbia Public Library (Simpson) and the Philadelphia Museum of Art (Peale).

Simpson's was exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery in In this portrait, Mamout wears a hat resembling a kufi.[2][8][10]

See also

Further reading

References

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    (). "A Man's True Worth". OUPblog | Oxford University Press's blog.

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    (February 13, ). "Yarrow Mamout, the slave who became a Georgetown financier". Washington Post. Retrieved March 13,

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    (July ). "Rethinking Yarrow Mamout". The Muslim World.

    Yarrow mammoet biography channel Johnston hoped to stop the construction of a set townhouses at Dent Place, NW, a location he described as “one-of-a-kind in the racial history of America.” To convince the board of Dent Place’s significance, Johnston told the story of the property’s former owner, Yarrow Mamout — the financier of Georgetown.

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    "Yarrow Mamout: Freedman". AramcoWorld. Retrieved March 13,

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    (July ). "Two Museums and the Simpson Portrait of Yarrow Mamout".

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  12. ^Sheir, Rebecca (). "Uncovering the Tale of Yarrow Mamout, Former Slave, Muslim Man About Town". WAMU.

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