A man of many talents, Benjamin Banneker was one of the first distinguished African American scientists and mathematicians. He was also an inventor and a writer. Banneker was…
Benjamin Banneker was a self-educated scientist, inventor, writer, and naturalist. Learn more about his life and legacy.
Benjamin Banneker Benjamin Banneker built one of the first watches made in America, a wooden pocket watch in 1753. Benjamin Banneker (1731 – 1806) was a free African American almanac author…
The story of astronomer and polymath Benjamin Banneker (1731–1806) is one of dignity and ingenuity against the backdrop of slavery and racism.
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Benjamin Banneker, a free African-American man living in a slave state in the eighteenth century, never knew the weight of iron shackles or the crack of an overseer’s whip. A...
Benjamin Banneker’s Letter to Thomas Jefferson, August 19, 1791 SIR, I AM fully sensible of the greatness of that freedom, which I take with you on the present occasion; a liberty which seemed to me scarcely allowable, when I reflected on that distinguished and dignified … Read More(1791) Benjamin Banneker’s Letter to Thomas Jefferson
A man of many talents, Benjamin Banneker was one of the first distinguished African American scientists and mathematicians. He was also an inventor and a writer. Banneker was…
1989 Black Heritage Series Benjamin Banneker Stamp Scott 1804