Dear Benjamin Banneker by Brian Pinkney, Andrea Davis Pinkney

Dear Benjamin Banneker

Brian Pinkney, Andrea Davis Pinkney

32 pages first pub 1994 (editions)

nonfiction biography history challenging medium-paced
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Throughout his life Banneker was troubled that all blacks were not free. And so, in 1791, he wrote to Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson, who had signed the Declaration of Independence. Banneker attacked the institution of slavery and dared to ca...

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