Benjamin Banneker

Benjamin Banneker
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Plan of the city of Washington in the territory of Columbia : ceded by the states of Virginia and
Maryland to the United States of America, and by them established as the seat of their government, after
the year MDCCC. Banneker helped plan the layout using mathematics.
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Benjamin Banneker's Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland and
Virginia Almanack and Ephemeris, for the Year of Our Lord
1792.
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Letter, Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Banneker expressing
his belief that blacks possess talents equal to those of "other
colours of men," 30 August 1791.
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Historical article discussing Bannekers accomplishments.
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A portrait of Benjamin Banneker on the cover of his Almanac, 1795
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Map Collections: 1500-2004
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Plan of the city of Washington in the territory of Columbia : ceded by the states of Virginia and
Maryland to the United States of America, and by them established as the seat of their government, after
the year MDCCC / engrav'd by Sam'l Hill, Boston ; in order to execute this plan, Mr. Ellicott drew a true
meridional line ...
Ellicott, Andrew, 1754-1820.
CREATED/PUBLISHED
[Boston : s.n., 1792]
NOTES
Shows block numbers and proposed government buildings.
Watermarks: Budgen, GR, [crown over fleur-de-lis].
Reference: Phillips. Washington, 1278
Includes text and notes.
LC copies variously soiled, torn, annotated in lead pencil, trimmed, edged with cloth stripping, and mounted on
cloth backing.
LC copies 1 and 3 have annotated notes on verso, in pencil of the city canal by F.C. de Krafft dated September
9, 1831.
Scale [ca. 1:19,800].
SUBJECTS
Washington (D.C.)--Maps--Early works to 1800.
United States--District of Columbia--Washington.
RELATED NAMES
Hill, Samuel, 1766?-1804.
De Krafft, F. C.
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African American Odyssey
Benjamin Banneker's Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland and Virginia Almanack and Ephemeris, for the
Year of Our Lord 1792.
CREATED/PUBLISHED
Baltimore: William Goddard and James Angell, 1791.
SUBJECTS
Almanacs, American--Maryland.
RELATED NAMES
Banneker, Benjamin, 1731-1806
American Almanac Collection (Library of Congress)
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Words and Deeds in American History: Selected Documents Celebrating the Manuscript Division's First
100 Years
Letter, Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Banneker expressing his belief that blacks possess talents equal to
those of "other colours of men," 30 August 1791.
(Thomas Jefferson Papers)
While serving as secretary of state, Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), one of Virginia's
largest planters and slaveholders, wrote this 30 August 1791 response to Benjamin
Banneker (1731-1806), an African-American mathematician and surveyor living in
Maryland, who had written a forceful letter to Jefferson the day before, chastising him
for holding slaves and questioning his sincerity as a "friend of liberty." (Banneker's 19
August 1791 letter to Jefferson is held by the Massachusetts Historical Society).
Jefferson and Banneker had been in contact previously, and the future president had been
so impressed by Banneker's skills that he had recommended him for employment as an
assistant surveyor of the new federal district. In a polite response to Banneker's August
1791 letter, Jefferson expressed his ambivalent feelings about slavery and assured the surveyor that "no body
wishes more ardently to see a good system commenced for raising the condition" of blacks "to what it ought to
be." Jefferson also indicated that he had sent an example of Banneker's work to the Marquis de Condorcet
(1743-1794), secretary of the Royal Academy of Science and a strong advocate of racial equality, for the
marquis's use in disposing of other people's doubts about black inferiority. Years later, however, Jefferson
reneged on his favorable comments to Banneker about blacks in letters to Henri Gregoire (1750-1831) and Joel
Barlow (1754-1812) in 1809.
Gerard W. Gawalt and Janice E. Ruth, Manuscript Division
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Reproduction Number:
A54 (color slide); LC-MSS-27748-21 (B&W negative)
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Colonial America (1492-1763)
Mathematician and Astronomer Benjamin
Banneker Was Born
November 9, 1731
What do you see when you look at the stars?
Benjamin Banneker saw astronomical patterns from
which he could make calculations and predictions. A
mathematician and astronomer, Benjamin Banneker
was born on November 9, 1731, in Ellicott's Mills,
Maryland.
A portrait of Benjamin Banneker
on the cover of his Almanac,
1795
Largely self-taught, Banneker was one of the first
African Americans to gain distinction in science. His
significant accomplishments include the successful
prediction of a solar eclipse, publishing his own
almanac, and the surveying of Washington, D.C.
Banneker spent most of his life on his family's 100acre farm outside Baltimore. There, he taught
himself astronomy by watching the stars and learned
advanced mathematics from borrowed textbooks.
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List of Sources Used in this Activity
Workshop 3 Life in a Box: Benjamin Banneker
(1795). A portrait of Benjamin Banneker on the cover of his Almanac, 1795
Americas Story, jump Back in time, Colonial America, (1492-1763).
jb_colonial_banneker_1_e.
(1791). Benjamin Banneker's Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland and Virginia
Almanack and Ephemeris, for the Year of Our Lord 1792. Library of
Congress Rare Book and Special Collections Division, American Memory,
African American Odyssey. rbcmisc ody0214.
(1884). Benjamin Banneker [part II]. Ohio Historical Center Archives. Newspaper
Roll#4427.
Ellicott, A. (1792). Plan of the city of Washington in the territory of Columbia :
ceded by the states of Virginia and Maryland to the United States of
America, and by them established as the seat of their government, after
the year MDCCC / engrav'd by Sam'l Hill, Boston ; in order to execute this
plan, Mr. Ellicott drew a true meridional line ... Library of Congress
Geography and Map Division, American Memory, Map Collections. g3850
ct000299.
Jefferson, T. (1791). Letter, Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Banneker expressing
his belief that blacks possess talents equal to those of "other colours of
men," 30 August 1791. Library of Congress Manuscript Devision,
American Memory, Words and Deeds in American History: Selected
Documents Celebrating the Manuscript Division's First 100 Years. LCMSS-27748-21.