Dear Benjamin Banneker
BY ANDREA DAVIS-PINKNEY, ILLUSTRATED BY BRIAN PINKNEY
Brief Description:
Though the fact that Banneker regularly attended meeting for worship is not mentioned, this is a very good short biography of this remarkable free Black man: an accomplished astronomer and mathematician and the first Black man to publish an almanac. He also wrote Thomas Jefferson as incredibly eloquent letter (which is excerpted here) speaking against slavery. Ages 6-9.
Harcourt 1998 32 PP. Paper
$7.00
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