1731-1806

"Benjamin Banneker is known and admired for his work in science, mathematics, and astronomy. He was born free at a time in America, 1731, when most African Americans were slaves. At the age of 22 he built a strike clock based on his own drawings and using a pocket-knife"--Provided by the Publisher.

A biography of Benjamin Banneker, including his early life, personal life, contributions to science, surveying, the Farmers' Almanac, his campaign against slavery, and more.

"Simple text and photographs present the life of Benjamin Banneker, a free African-American astronomer, author, and inventor of the 1700s"--Provided by publisher.

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 his role in surveying the site for the capital city, Washington D.C., and his published almanacs with precise tide calculations and weather predictions. Also, Banneker himself was one of the first African Americans to speak out against slavery. Banneker's accomplishments were used by abolitionists as proof of the intellectual powers of his race.

Chronicles the life of Benjamin Banneker, providing information on his extraordinary mathematical and analytical abilities, his photographic memory, his role in the planning of Washinton, D.C., and his "Banneker's Almanac," which was celebrated for the accuracy of the celestial movements it provided navigators and its weather forecasts.

A biography of the African-American farmer and self-taught mathematician, astronomer, and surveyor for the new capital city of the United States in 1791, who also calculated a successful almanac notable for its preciseness.

Chronicles the life of eighteenth-century African-American astronomer, mathematician, inventor, and writer Benjamin Banneker.

Relates 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.

Story of the correspondence between Benjamin Banneker, a free black man, who wrote to Thomas Jefferson to tell him how he felt about Jefferson owning slaves.