The Life of Benjamin Banneker
Author: Silvio A. Bedini
Publisher:
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 488
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe biography of the great black American scientist and abolitionist who wrote an almanac and helped survey Washington.
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Benjamin Banneker and Us
Author: Rachel Jamison Webster
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company
Published: 2023-03-21
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 1250827299
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA family reunion gives way to an unforgettable genealogical quest as relatives reconnect across lines of color, culture, and time, putting the past into urgent conversation with the present. In 1791, Thomas Jefferson hired a Black man to help survey Washington, DC. That man was Benjamin Banneker, an African American mathematician, a writer of almanacs, and one of the greatest astronomers of his generation. Banneker then wrote what would become a famous letter to Jefferson, imploring the new president to examine his hypocrisy, as someone who claimed to love liberty yet was an enslaver. More than two centuries later, Rachel Jamison Webster, an ostensibly white woman, learns that this groundbreaking Black forefather is also her distant relative. Acting as a storyteller, Webster draws on oral history and conversations with her DNA cousins to imagine the lives of their shared ancestors across eleven generations, among them Banneker’s grandparents, an interracial couple who broke the law to marry when America was still a conglomerate of colonies under British rule. These stories shed light on the legal construction of race and display the brilliance and resistance of early African Americans in the face of increasingly unjust laws, some of which are still in effect in the present day.
Benjamin Banneker
Author: Charles A. Cerami
Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
Published: 2008-04-21
Total Pages: 188
ISBN-13: 0470303611
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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.
Dear Benjamin Banneker
Author: Andrea Davis Pinkney
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 35
ISBN-13: 0152018921
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBanneker, a free black mathematician and astronomer, takes a stand against slavery and writes Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson about his slave-owning policies.
Benjamin Banneker
Author: Ginger Wadsworth
Publisher: Millbrook Press
Published: 2003-08-01
Total Pages: 52
ISBN-13: 157505714X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTrue or False? Benjamin Banneker used a telescope and mathematics to predict a solar eclipse. True! In 1789, Banneker calculated when the moon would pass between the earth and sun. And he did it without any formal math or science training. As a young boy, he worked on the farm owned by his father, who was a freed slave in Maryland. He helped to survey and plot out the site for the U.S. capital city, Washington, D.C. He also published several almanacs that helped farmers, merchants, and sailors predict the weather and know the dates of holidays and festivals.
Benjamin Banneker, Genius of Early America
Author: Lillie Patterson
Publisher: Abingdon Press
Published: 1978
Total Pages: 152
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA 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.
Benjamin Banneker
Author: Bonnie Hinman
Publisher: Chelsea House
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 79
ISBN-13: 9780791053485
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA biography of the eighteenth-century African American who taught himself mathematics and astronomy and helped survey what would become Washington, D.C.
Molly Bannaky
Author: Alice McGill
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 36
ISBN-13: 9780395722879
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRelates how Benjamin Banneker's grandmother journeyed from England to Maryland in the late seventeenth century, worked as an indentured servant, began a farm of her own, and married a freed slave.
Benjamin Banneker
Author: Melissa Maupin
Publisher:
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 40
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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.
What Are You Figuring Now?
Author: Jeri Ferris
Publisher: Millbrook Press
Published: 2011-08-01
Total Pages: 68
ISBN-13: 0761382690
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1791 plans for the new capital city, Washington, D.C., were in the works, but someone was needed to help with the surveying. Thomas Jefferson recommended Benjamin Banneker for the job. Banneker was a free black man who lived at a time when black Americans had few, if any, rights. Yet he was an accomplished farmer, mathematician, astronomer, and surveyor. What Are You Figuring Now? is the story of a man who was never afraid to try something new, no matter how difficult.
