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What Are You Figuring Now?: A Story about Benjamin Banneker

Jeri Ferris, Amy Johnson

What Are You Figuring Now?: A Story about Benjamin Banneker

Paperback (LernerClassroom Aug. 1, 1988) , Reprint edition

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.

Series
Creative Minds Biographies
ISBN
0876145217 / 9780876145210
Pages
64
Weight
12.6 oz.
Dimensions
5.8 x 0.2 in.

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