Benjamin Banneker
By: Kevin Conley.
Series: Black Americans of achievement
Publisher: Chelsea House Publishers
Published: 1989
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 109
Subjects: Banneker, Benjamin, 1731-1806 -- Juvenile literature.; Banneker, Benjamin, 1731-1806.; Astronomers -- United States -- Juvenile literature.; African Americans -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.; Astronomers.; African Americans -- Biography.
Genres: Juvenile literature.; Biography; Biography.
Description: A biography of the eighteenth-century black tobacco farmer who taught himself mathematics, astronomy, and clockmaking; became famous for his almanacs; and assisted in the original survey of Washington, D.C.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 106.
Includes index.