Cover of Banneker's 1795 Almanac"

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Cover of Banneker's 1795 Almanac"

"Portrait of Benjamin Banneker from the cover of his 1795 Almanac"

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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,…