Benjamin Bannaker was born on November 9th 1731 in Ellicott’s Mills Maryland. Son of Robert and Mary Banneky. Mary was the daughter of an englishwoman named Molly Welsh a former indentured servant. Benjamin was a largely self-educated Mathematician, astronomer compiler of almanacs and also a writer. Benjamin never had to go through slavery because his parents were eventually freed. His grandmother introduced him into learning and how to read. He also went to a small school for a while, he educated himself mostly he didn't do anything to make him look less brilliant. Benjamin accomplished constructing an irrigation system for the family farm ( Sprinkler) and a wooden clock he kept until the day he died in 1806. Benjamin taught himself astronomy and accurately forecasted lunar and solar eclipses. When his father died he took over his family farm making a well-run business selling tobacco via crops.
Benjamin Banneker wrote a letter in a very respectful way to Thomas Jefferson because if he approached this letter the wrong way he wouldn't be received in the right way and Thomas…show more content… In this entire letter I want to really focus on one part of the letter which states “ Sir, I have long been convinced that if your love for yourselves and for those inesteemable laws which preserve to you the rights of human nature was founded on Sincerity, you could not but be solicitous that every Individual of whatsoever rank or distinction might with you equally enjoy the blessings thereof, neither could you rest satisfied, short of the most active diffusion of your exertions, in order to their promotion from any State of degradation to which the unjustifiable cruelty and barbarism of men may have reduced them.” Benjamin Banneker was writing a letter to Thomas Jefferson
