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✧ Yarrow Mamout ✧

Yarrow Mamout was an African-American freedman of Guinean origin. Born into the Fula people in around 1736, Mamout was raised as a Muslim and learned to read and write in Arabic as well as his native Fula language. Captured and enslaved in 1752, he was brought to Maryland on the slave ship Elijah and was sold to Samuel Beall, a plantat...

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Jeffrey Goldberg Sep 2, 2024

@w7voa @fulelo, I am very happy that this is happening, but I am also a bit surprised that this is new. #Fula is a first or second language of a lot of people. So thank you #VOA