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Author Talk at White Oak Library: James Johnston

Please join our African American book discussion group for this special author visit with James Johnston, author of this month's book: From Slave Ship to Harvard. Yarrow Mamout, an educated man brought to America
as a slave, became well known enough for Norman Vincent Peale to paint
his portrait. The book follows Mamout and his family through generations
of notable achievement.

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