“I have long been convinced that if your love for yourselves, and for those inestimable laws which preserved to you the rights of human nature, was founded on sincerity, you could not but be solicitous, that every individual, of whatever rank or distinction, might with you equally enjoy the blessings thereof.”

About Benjamin Banneker

Scientist • American

Benjamin Banneker was a largely self-educated African American astronomer, mathematician, author, and surveyor. Born a free man in Maryland, he constructed one of the first wooden clocks in America and authored a...