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 ...
Less than two weeks after Benjamin Banneker wrote to Thomas Jefferson, challenging the democratic ideology that denied liberty and humanity to blacks, Jefferson sent him a polite response (dated ...
D.C. Banneker and founding father Thomas Jefferson frequently wrote letters to one another and Banneker would challenge Jefferson about slavery, urging him to fight for abolition.
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