Join us as Jim Johnston, the author of “From Slave Ship to Harvard: Yarrow Mamout and the History of an African American Family,” tells the story of this remarkable man. Brought to Maryland on a slave ship in 1752 and enslaved for the next forty 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 Willson Peale learned of Yarrow and painted a “remarkable likeness” as a testament to racial equality. Ticketed.