Author: Benjamin Banneker
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ISBN:
Category : Almanacs, American
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
Benjamin Banneker's Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland and Virginia Almanack and Ephemeris, for the Year of Our Lord, 1793...
Author: Benjamin Banneker
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Almanacs, American
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Almanacs, American
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
Benjamin Banneker's Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland and Virginia Almanack and Ephemeris, for the Year of Our Lord, 1792 ...
Author: Benjamin Banneker
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Almanacs, American
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Almanacs, American
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Banneker's Almanack, and Ephemeris for the Year of Our Lord 1793
Author: Benjamin Banneker
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Almanacs, American
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Almanacs, American
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Benjamin Banneker's Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland and Virginia Almanack and Ephemeris, for the Year of Our Lord, 1792
Author: Benjamin Banneker
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Almanacs, American
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Almanacs, American
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Banneker's Almanack and Ephemeris for the Year of Our Lord 1793 ...
Author: Benjamin Banneker
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Almanacs, American
Languages : en
Pages :
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Almanacs, American
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Benjamin Banneker's Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia Almanac for the Year of Our Lord, 1795 ; Being the Third After Leap-year
Author: Benjamin Banneker
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Almanacs, American
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Almanacs, American
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Banneker's New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland and Virginia Almanac, Or Ephemeris, for the Year of Our Lord 1795
Banneker's Maryland, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Virginia, Kentucky, and North Carolina Almanack and Ephemeris, for the Year of Our Lord 1796; Being Bissextile, Or Leap-year; the Twentieth Year of American Independence, and Eighth Year of the Federal Government
Author: Benjamin Banneker
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Category : African American authors
Languages : en
Pages : 35
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African American authors
Languages : en
Pages : 35
Book Description
Benjamin Banneker and Us
Author: Rachel Jamison Webster
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company
ISBN: 1250827299
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
A 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.
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company
ISBN: 1250827299
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
A 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.