Benjamin Banneker

• Author(s): Melissa Maupin,
• Publisher: Child's World
• Pages: 32
• ISBN_10: 160253117X
  ISBN_13: 9781602531178
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Juvenile Nonfiction / Biography & Autobiography / Historical , Juvenile Nonfiction / Biography & Autobiography / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional , Juvenile Nonfiction / Biography & Autobiography / Science & Technology , Juvenile Nonfiction / People & Places / United States / African American & Black , Juvenile Nonfiction / People & Places / General ,

Description:... Eighteenth-century inventor and astronomer Benjamin Banneker was widely known and respected in his time. Most of what he knew, he taught himself. His letter to Thomas Jefferson asked the future president to reconsider his racial prejudices. Later, abolitionists would use Banneker as proof that people of any race can be equally intelligent.