Author: Lillie Patterson
Publisher: Abingdon Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 152
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A biography of the distinguished eighteenth-century black astronomer, farmer, mathematician, and surveyor whose accomplishments include having published a popular almanac and constructed the first completely American-made clock.
Author: Charles A. Cerami
Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
ISBN: 0470303611
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 188
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The first biography of a major figure in early US and African American history A household name and unparalleled hero revered in every African American household, Benjamin Banneker was a completely self-taught mathematical genius who achieved professional status in astronomy, navigation, and engineering. His acknowledged expertise and superior surveying skills led to his role as coworker with the Founding Fathers in planning our nation’s capitol, Washington, DC. His annual Banneker’s Almanac was the first written by a black and outsold the major competition. In addition, he was a vocal force in the fight for the abolition of slavery. Yet, despite his accomplishments, there has been no biography of this important man—until now. Written by an author with strong ties across the Washington-Maryland-Virginia area where abolitionist societies revered Banneker, this long overdue biography at last gives the hard-earned attention this prominent hero and his accomplishments deserve.
Author: Melissa Maupin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
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The Journey to Freedom (R) series provides comprehensive information and honest portrayals of key African-American people and events, illuminating achievements and contributions that have shaped the history of our nation-and our world. Book jacket.
Author: Laura Baskes Litwin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780766012080
Category : African American scientists
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Benjamin Banneker, born in 1731, was a man ahead of his time. As a free African American in a time of slavery, Banneker was not welcome in white society, and he spent most of his life on his Maryland farm. There he harnessed his keen and curious intellect to teach himself complex mathematics and astronomy. Banneker secured a place in history with many accomplishments, including his role in surveying the site for the capital city, Washington D.C., and his published almanacs with precise tide calculations and weather predictions. Banneker's accomplishments were used by abolitionists as proof of the intellectual powers of his race, and Banneker himself was one of the first African Americans to speak out against slavery.
Author: Vincent Carretta
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813183200
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 419
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Until fairly recently, critical studies and anthologies of African American literature generally began with the 1830s and 1840s. Yet there was an active and lively transatlantic black literary tradition as early as the 1760s. Genius in Bondage situates this literature in its own historical terms, rather than treating it as a sort of prologue to later African American writings. The contributors address the shifting meanings of race and gender during this period, explore how black identity was cultivated within a capitalist economy, discuss the impact of Christian religion and the Enlightenment on definitions of freedom and liberty, and identify ways in which black literature both engaged with and rebelled against Anglo-American culture.
Author: Laura Baskes Litwin
Publisher: Enslow Publishers, Inc.
ISBN: 0766061140
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 98
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The story of free African American Benjamin Banneker, who, despite growing up in a time of slavery, pushed through to make his dream of being an astronomer come true.
Author: Andrea Davis Pinkney
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0152018921
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 35
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Banneker, a free black mathematician and astronomer, takes a stand against slavery and writes Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson about his slave-owning policies.
Author: E. Landon Hobgood
Publisher: Author House
ISBN: 1449050859
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 214
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Patapsco is a novel that fictionalizes the life of the Early American scientist, Benjamin Banneker. It is written in a style that approximates the language of the Eighteenth Century. While the characters and events are both real and imagined, the accomplishments of Banneker are historically accurate. "This work could have been called, A SYMPHONY Of BENJAMIN BANNEKER. The life of this African American genius was such thatits rhythms, movements and colors were in precise design. Banneker was rightly recognized, in his time, as an American original. Other works by this author: SONGS OF THE ZODIAC, In Doo-Wop America ISBN: 0-595-40032-9 HARLEM WRITERS GUILD PRESS/iUNIVERSE THE LEGEND OF MOON MOUNTAIN, Ruwenzori-A Fable For Every Age; ISBN: 978-1-4343-4157-0 AUTHORHOUSE EXCURSIONS, Penny Candy ISBN: 978-1-4401-6159-9 HARLEM WRITERS GUILD PRESS/iUNIVERSE
Author: William Wells Brown
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3387094817
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 378
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Author: Shana Keller
Publisher: Sleeping Bear Press
ISBN: 1627539654
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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Throughout his life, Benjamin Banneker was known and admired for his work in science, mathematics, and astronomy, just to name a few pursuits. But even when he was born in Maryland in 1731, he was already an extraordinary person for that time period. He was born free at a time in America when most African Americans were slaves. Though he only briefly attended school and was largely self-taught, at a young age Benjamin displayed a keen aptitude for mathematics and science. Inspired by a pocket watch he had seen, at the age of 22 he built a strike clock based on his own drawings and using a pocket-knife. This picture book biography focuses on one episode in a remarkable life.
