What are you figuring now?: a story about Benjamin Banneker
(1988)
By:
Ferris, Jeri
Nonfiction
eBook
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Lerner Publishing Group : Made available through hoopla, 1988
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9780761382690 (electronic bk.) MWT11772937, 0761382690 (electronic bk.) 11772937
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
In 1791 plans for the new capital city, Washington, D.C., were in the works, but someone was needed to help with the surveying. Thomas Jefferson recommended Benjamin Banneker for the job. Banneker was a free black man who lived at a time when black Americans had few, if any, rights. Yet he was an accomplished farmer, mathematician, astronomer, and surveyor. What Are You Figuring Now? is the story of a man who was never afraid to try something new, no matter how difficult
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