Mathematicians of the African Diaspora: Benjamin Banneker
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Description: Features a detailed biography as well as excerpts from a letter Banneker wrote to Thomas Jefferson.
BENJAMIN BANNEKER 1731-1806 - Mathematicians of the African Diaspora {before taking this biography as the absolute truth, I suggest you read the Molly Walsh emigrated from England to the colony Maryland as an indentured slave in bondage for seven years. When her servitude ended, Molly purchased a farm along the Patapsco River near Baltimore. and two slaves. In time she set the slaves free and married one of them, a man named Bannaky (changed from Banna Ka). They had several children, one a daughter named Mary. Mary Bannaky grew up, purchased a slave, Robert, whom she later married and lived on the family farm. On Nov. 9, 1731, a son, Benjamin, was born to Robert and Mary Bannaky.
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