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Dear Benjamin Banneker

Andrea David Pinkney (Author), J. Brian Pinkney (Illustrator)
Benjamin Banneker was born free when most blacks were still enslaved. A self-taught mathematician and astronomer, he was the author of the first published almanac written by a black man. Throughout his life Bannecker was troubled that all blacks were not free. So, in 1791, he sent a letter to Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson. Here is the extraordinary correspondence between the two men

Print Book, English, ©1994
1st ed
Harcourt Brace & Co., San Diego, CA, ©1994