1736 – 1823
Yarrow Marmood was a former enslaved African Muslim who became a businessman and landowner in Washington. He died around the age of 87.
In 1807 on April 13, Yarrow (Mamout) Marmood was given his freedom by Upton Beall of Montgomery County in the Washington, DC area. He established a hauling business, owned real estate on what is now 3330-3332 Dent Place NW, and invested some of his savings into the stock of the Bank of Columbia. Yarrow lived to be more than 100 years old. The dates of his birth and death have been record as 1736-1844.
Books & Sources
- “Africa Remembered: Narratives by West Africans from the Era of the Slave Trade,” by Philip Curtin
- “Servants of Allah,” by Sylviane Diouf
- “African Muslims in Antebellum America: Transatlantic Stories and Spiritual Struggles,” by Allan Austin
- “Muslims in America: Seven Centuries of History (1312-2000) “Collections and Stories of American Muslims,” by Amir Nashid Ali Muhammad
- “From a Slave Ship to Harvard,” by James Johnston
External Link Sources
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yarrow_Mamout https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/yarrow-mamout-the-slave-who-became-a-georgetown-financier/2015/02/13/06710a98-b30b-11e4-827f-93f454140e2b_story.html
- https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/art-americas/british-colonies/early-republic/v/peale-mamout
- https://npg.si.edu/about-us/press-release/portrait-yarrow-mamout-on-view-national-portrait-gallery-0
- https://www.philamuseum.org/doc_downloads/education/object_resources/319114.pdf
- https://www.aramcoworld.com/Articles/July-2016/Yarrow-Mamout-Freedman
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