Letter from Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Banneker

ID: 76 ~ Source: https://www.loc.gov/item/today-in-history/november-09/ ~ Date: 30 August 1791
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Letter from Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Banneker

"Letter, Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Banneker expressing his belief that blacks possess talents equal to those of “other colors of men,”

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By Lieza Mae Menil
Benjamin Banneker was born a free African American on November 9th, 1731, in Baltimore County, Maryland. Banneker was a Maryland tobacco farmer and later became a mathematician and astronomer. He was the only son of Robert Bannaky and Mary Bannaky,…