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Banneker was born on November 9, 1731, in Baltimore County, Maryland, to Mary Banneky, a free black woman, and Robert, a freed slave from Guinea who died in 1759. [3] [4] There are two conflicting accounts of Banneker's family history.
BALTIMORE -- Baltimore County native Benjamin Banneker's contributions to Black history are stories of resilience, activism, and ingenuity. Banneker was born on a farm in 1731 in Oella, Maryland.
The Free Black in Urban America, 1800–1850: The Shadow of the Dream (University of Chicago Press, 1981). Diemer, Andrew K. The Politics of Black Citizenship: Free African Americans in the Mid-Atlantic Borderland, 1817–1863 (University of Georgia Press, 2016). xvi, 253 pp. Franklin, John Hope. Free Negroes in North Carolina. Hancock, Scott.
Benjamin Banneker: Bedini, Silvio A (1999). The life of Benjamin Banneker: the first African-American man of science. Maryland Historical Society. [3] Hinman, Bonnie (2000). Benjamin Banneker: American Mathematician and Astronomer (Colonial Leaders). [200] David Blackwell: Blackwell, David; Wilmot, Nadine (2003). An oral history with David ...
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West side of Benjamin Banneker Park, 1701 North Van Buren Street, Falls Church, Virginia, between 18th Street North and Four Mile Run Arlington County and the City of Falls Church, Virginia 38°52′59″N 77°09′33″W / 38.88294291°N 77.15909006°W / 38.88294291; -77.15909006 ( Southwest No. 9 Boundary Marker of the ...
[1] [2] He was the father of Martha Ellicott Tyson (September 13, 1795 – March 5, 1873), who became an Elder of the Quaker Meeting in Baltimore, an anti-slavery and women's rights advocate, the author of a biography of Benjamin Banneker, a founder of Swarthmore College and an inductee to the Maryland Women's Hall of Fame.
Illustration of Benjamin Banneker, 1731-1806. American mathematician, astronomer, writer, and farmer. (Getty Images) Children all across the United States often fantasize about growing up to be an ...