click image for close-up The cover of Benjamin Banneker's 1795 Almanac ... Society of Friends. The 1795 Almanac was one of six, published annually from 1792 to 1797. In an era when books of ...

On August 19, 1791, Benjamin Banneker wrote a lengthy letter to Thomas Jefferson, then Secretary of State, in which "having taken up my pen in order to direct to you as a present, a copy of an ...

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