01921cam a2200469 i 4500 425169862 TxAuBib 20200513120000.0 930727s1994||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 93031162 /AC/r95 9780152004170 0152004173 9780153143960 0153143967 (OCoLC)28677354 TxAuBib rda Pinkney, Andrea David,. Dear Benjamin Banneker / Andrea Davis Pinkney ; illustrated by Brian Pinkney. 1st ed. San Diego, CA : Harcourt Brace & Co., 1994. 32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "Gulliver books.". Benjamin Banneker was born free when most blacks were still enslaved. A self-taught mathematician and astronomer, he was the author of the first published almanac written by a black man. Throughout his life Bannecker was troubled that all blacks were not free. So, in 1791, he sent a letter to Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson. Here is the extraordinary correspondence between the two men. 20200513. Banneker, Benjamin, 1731-1806. Banneker, Benjamin, 1731-1806. Almanacs, American History Juvenile literature. African American scientists Biography Juvenile literature. Astronomers. Almanacs History. African Americans Biography. African American scientists. Almanacs, American. History. Biography. Juvenile works. Pinkney, J. Brian, illustrator. TXRHO