Dear Benjamin Banneker by Andrea Davis Pinkney

Dear Benjamin Banneker

Andrea Davis Pinkney with Brian Pinkney (Illustrator)

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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