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Author : Silvio A. Bedini
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : PSU:000010689325
The biography of the great black American scientist and abolitionist who wrote an almanac and helped survey Washington.
Author : Laura Baskes Litwin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : African American scientists
ISBN : 0766012085
Benjamin Banneker, born in 1731, was a man ahead of his time. As a free African American in a time of slavery, Banneker was not welcome in white society, and he spent most of his life on his Maryland farm. There he harnessed his keen and curious intellect to teach himself complex mathematics and astronomy. Banneker secured a place in history with many accomplishments, including his role in surveying the site for the capital city, Washington D.C., and his published almanacs with precise tide calculations and weather predictions. Banneker's accomplishments were used by abolitionists as proof of the intellectual powers of his race, and Banneker himself was one of the first African Americans to speak out against slavery.
Author : Andrea Davis Pinkney
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780152018924
Banneker, a free black mathematician and astronomer, takes a stand against slavery and writes Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson about his slave-owning policies.
Author : Ginger Wadsworth
Publisher : Millbrook Press ™
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781541528529
Gazing up at the stars, Benjamin Banneker longed to understand how and why things worked as they did. In a time when most black Americans were slaves, Banneker lived a life of freedom and became known as America's first black American man of science. He helped survey Washington, D.C., and became the first black American to write an almanac. Through his accomplishments, he helped advance the cause of equality for African Americans.
Author : Rachel Jamison Webster
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2023-03-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781250827296
A family reunion gives way to an unforgettable genealogical quest as relatives reconnect across lines of color, culture, and time, putting the past into urgent conversation with the present. In 1791, Thomas Jefferson hired a Black man to help survey Washington, DC. That man was Benjamin Banneker, an African American mathematician, a writer of almanacs, and one of the greatest astronomers of his generation. Banneker then wrote what would become a famous letter to Jefferson, imploring the new president to examine his hypocrisy, as someone who claimed to love liberty yet was an enslaver. More than two centuries later, Rachel Jamison Webster, an ostensibly white woman, learns that this groundbreaking Black forefather is also her distant relative. Acting as a storyteller, Webster draws on oral history and conversations with her DNA cousins to imagine the lives of their shared ancestors across eleven generations, among them Banneker’s grandparents, an interracial couple who broke the law to marry when America was still a conglomerate of colonies under British rule. These stories shed light on the legal construction of race and display the brilliance and resistance of early African Americans in the face of increasingly unjust laws, some of which are still in effect in the present day.
Author : Charles A. Cerami
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2008-04-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780470303610
The first biography of a major figure in early US and African American history A household name and unparalleled hero revered in every African American household, Benjamin Banneker was a completely self-taught mathematical genius who achieved professional status in astronomy, navigation, and engineering. His acknowledged expertise and superior surveying skills led to his role as coworker with the Founding Fathers in planning our nation’s capitol, Washington, DC. His annual Banneker’s Almanac was the first written by a black and outsold the major competition. In addition, he was a vocal force in the fight for the abolition of slavery. Yet, despite his accomplishments, there has been no biography of this important man—until now. Written by an author with strong ties across the Washington-Maryland-Virginia area where abolitionist societies revered Banneker, this long overdue biography at last gives the hard-earned attention this prominent hero and his accomplishments deserve.
Author : Bonnie Hinman,Arthur Meier Schlesinger
Publisher : Chelsea House
Page : 79 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0791053482
A biography of the eighteenth-century African American who taught himself mathematics and astronomy and helped survey what would become Washington, D.C.
Author : Melissa Maupin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1567666183
This book describes the life and accomplishments of Benjamin Banneker in the fields of science and architecture, as well as his impact as one of the pioneers in promoting equality.
Author : Alice McGill
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 039572287X
Relates how Benjamin Banneker's grandmother journeyed from England to Maryland in the late seventeenth century, worked as an indentured servant, began a farm of her own, and married a freed slave.
Author : Jeri Ferris
Publisher : Millbrook Press
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2011-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780761382690
In 1791 plans for the new capital city, Washington, D.C., were in the works, but someone was needed to help with the surveying. Thomas Jefferson recommended Benjamin Banneker for the job. Banneker was a free black man who lived at a time when black Americans had few, if any, rights. Yet he was an accomplished farmer, mathematician, astronomer, and surveyor. What Are You Figuring Now? is the story of a man who was never afraid to try something new, no matter how difficult.
Author : Shana Keller
Publisher : Sleeping Bear Press
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781627539654
Throughout his life, Benjamin Banneker was known and admired for his work in science, mathematics, and astronomy, just to name a few pursuits. But even when he was born in Maryland in 1731, he was already an extraordinary person for that time period. He was born free at a time in America when most African Americans were slaves. Though he only briefly attended school and was largely self-taught, at a young age Benjamin displayed a keen aptitude for mathematics and science. Inspired by a pocket watch he had seen, at the age of 22 he built a strike clock based on his own drawings and using a pocket-knife. This picture book biography focuses on one episode in a remarkable life.
Author : Allison Lassieur
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0736854320
"An introduction to the life of Benjamin Banneker, the African American astronomer and mathematician who helped survey Washington, D.C., and who wrote several successful almanacs"--Title page verso.
Author : Andrea Pinkney
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-06
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781423183037
In this New York Times Notable Children's Book and winner of the Coretta Scott King Author Award, follow the life stories of ten Black men in American history and the legacies they left that forever changed the country. Hand in Hand presents the stories of ten men from different eras in American history, organized chronologically to provide a scope from slavery to the modern day. The stories are accessible, fully-drawn narratives offering the subjects' childhood influences, the time and place in which they lived, their accomplishments and motivations, and the legacies they left for future generations as links in the "freedom chain." This book will be the definitive family volume on the subject, punctuated with dynamic full color portraits and spot illustrations by two-time Caldecott Honor winner and multiple Coretta Scott King Book Award recipient Brian Pinkney. Backmatter includes a civil rights timeline, sources, and further reading. Profiled: Benjamin Banneker Frederick Douglass Booker T. Washington W.E.B. DuBois A. Philip Randolph Thurgood Marshall Jackie Robinson Malcolm X Martin Luther King, Jr Barack H. Obama II
Author : Britt Rusert
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781479805723
Honorable Mention, 2019 MLA Prize for a First Book Sole Finalist Mention for the 2018 Lora Romero First Book Prize, presented by the American Studies Association Exposes the influential work of a group of black artists to confront and refute scientific racism. Traversing the archives of early African American literature, performance, and visual culture, Britt Rusert uncovers the dynamic experiments of a group of black writers, artists, and performers. Fugitive Science chronicles a little-known story about race and science in America. While the history of scientific racism in the nineteenth century has been well-documented, there was also a counter-movement of African Americans who worked to refute its claims. Far from rejecting science, these figures were careful readers of antebellum science who linked diverse fields—from astronomy to physiology—to both on-the-ground activism and more speculative forms of knowledge creation. Routinely excluded from institutions of scientific learning and training, they transformed cultural spaces like the page, the stage, the parlor, and even the pulpit into laboratories of knowledge and experimentation. From the recovery of neglected figures like Robert Benjamin Lewis, Hosea Easton, and Sarah Mapps Douglass, to new accounts of Martin Delany, Henry Box Brown, and Frederick Douglass, Fugitive Science makes natural science central to how we understand the origins and development of African American literature and culture. This distinct and pioneering book will spark interest from anyone wishing to learn more on race and society.
Author : James Oliver Horton,Lois E. Horton
Publisher : The New Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781595587442
“A fascinating collection of essays” by eminent historians exploring how we teach, remember, and confront the history and legacy of American slavery (Booklist Online). In recent years, the culture wars have called into question the way America’s history of slavery is depicted in books, films, television programs, historical sites, and museums. In the first attempt to examine the historiography of slavery, this unique collection of essays looks at recent controversies that have played out in the public arena, with contributions by such noted historians as Ira Berlin, David W. Blight, and Gary B. Nash. From the cancellation of the Library of Congress’s “Back of the Big House” slavery exhibit at the request of the institution’s African American employees, who found the visual images of slavery too distressing, to the public reaction to DNA findings confirming Thomas Jefferson’s relationship with his slave Sally Hemings, Slavery and Public History takes on contemporary reactions to the fundamental contradiction of American history—the existence of slavery in a country dedicated to freedom—and offers a bracing analysis of how Americans choose to remember the past, and how those choices influence our politics and culture. “Americans seem perpetually surprised by slavery—its extent (North as well as South), its span (over half of our four centuries of Anglo settlement), and its continuing influence. The wide-ranging yet connected essays in [this book] will help us all to remember and understand.” —James W. Loewen, author of Sundown Towns
