#yarrow mamout

[coltonwbrown]

Charles Wilson Peale - Yarrow Mamout 

[africandiasporababe]

African Slaves Were the 1st to Celebrate Ramadan in America

This past weekend marked the beginning of Ramadan. Nearly one-fourth of the world will observe the annual fast and 8 million Muslims in America will abstain from food and drink from sunrise to sunset during the holy month. A grueling task at any time of the year, Ramadan this year will be especially daunting during the long and hot summer days.

[blueberry-ink-93]

the progress may be progressing at a snails pace but its still progress!! + sunday is part of the weekend in the west so i get an extra day mehehe

[pasajeroypermanente]

James Alexander Simpson: Yarrow Mamout (1822)

[philamuseum]

This striking portrait depicts Yarrow Mamout, who gained his freedom 220 years ago today. Mamout, who was abducted from Guinea in West Africa and enslaved at about age 16, became a local celebrity as an elderly freedman. Charles Willson Peale, painter of this portrait, especially respected Yarrow’s resourcefulness, perseverance, and steadfast devotion to Islam.

“Portrait of Yarrow Mamout (Muhammad Yaro),” 1819, by Charles Willson Peale

[heytoyourmamanem]

Yarrow Mamout, the slave who became a Georgetown financier

His story and perhaps his body remain buried in Georgetown.

[art-and-things-of-beauty]

Charles Willson Peale (American, 1741-1827). Yarrow Mamout is believed to be the earliest known portrait of a practicing American Muslim (1819).

[karmaalwayswins]

Charles Wilson Peale "Yarrow Mamout" (1819)