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The life of Benjamin Banneker : the first African-American man of science

Benjamin Banneker, a free, black tobacco planter in Baltimore County in the 1700s, taught himself mathematics and astronomy late in life, earning a place among early American scientists

Print Book, English, 1999
2nd ed., rev. and expanded
Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore, 1999