Author: Benjamin Banneker
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Category : African American authors
Languages : en
Pages : 35

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Author: Silvio A. Bedini
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 466

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Revised and expanded in 1999 this definitive biography incorporates much new research undertaken since the book's first publication (Scribner's, 1972). Comments on the first edition:

Author: Amanda Rachel Minick
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 646

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Author: Frederick Albert Gutheim
Publisher: Smithsonian Books (DC)
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 192

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History of Washington D. C. and its city planning.

Author: Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature and History
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Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 762

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Author: Howard University. Libraries
Publisher: MacMillan Publishing Company
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 706

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Category : United States
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Pages : 588

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Author: William Cooper Nell
Publisher: Andesite Press
ISBN: 9781298490308
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Languages : en
Pages : 412

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Author: Benjamin Banneker
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ISBN: 9781520965390
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Languages : en
Pages : 27

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Benjamin Banneker (November 9, 1731 - October 9, 1806) was a free African American almanac author, surveyor, naturalist and farmer. Born in Baltimore County, Maryland, to a free African American woman and a former slave, Banneker had little formal education and was largely self-taught. He is known for being part of a group led by Major Andrew Ellicott that surveyed the borders of the original District of Columbia, the federal capital district of the United States.Banneker's knowledge of astronomy helped him author a commercially successful series of almanacs. He corresponded with Thomas Jefferson, drafter of the United States Declaration of Independence, on the topics of slavery and racial equality. Abolitionists and advocates of racial equality promoted and praised his works.Although a fire on the day of Banneker's funeral destroyed many of his papers and belongings, one of his journals and several of his remaining artifacts are presently available for public viewing. Parks, schools, streets and other tributes have commemorated Banneker throughout the years since he lived. However, many accounts of his life exaggerate or falsely attribute his works.