On August 19, 1791, Benjamin Banneker wrote a lengthy letter to Thomas Jefferson, then Secretary of State, in which "having taken up my pen in order to direct to you as a present, a copy of an ...

Less than two weeks after Benjamin Banneker wrote to Thomas ... Jefferson fails to comment either on his impressions of the Almanac Banneker sent to him or on the critical issues that Banneker's ...

click image for close-up The cover of Benjamin Banneker's 1795 ... In the 1793 edition, Banneker included his correspondence with Thomas Jefferson, in which he challenged Jefferson's ideas ...

BALTIMORE -- Baltimore County native Benjamin ... America from scratch, Banneker was a man of many talents, which also included farming and surveying. In 1791, Thomas Jefferson hired George ...

I AM fully sensible of the greatness of that freedom, which I take with you on the present occasion; a liberty which seemed to me scarcely allowable, when I reflected on that distinguished and ...

I THANK you, sincerely, for your letter of the 19th instant, and for the Almanac it contained. No body wishes more than I do, to see such proofs as you exhibit, that nature has given to our black ...