Benjamin Banneker and Us: Eleven Generations of an American Family by Rachel Jamison Webster

Benjamin Banneker and Us: Eleven Generations of an American Family

Rachel Jamison Webster

12 hours, 1 minutes first pub 2023 (editions) user-added

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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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 wou...

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