"How pitiable is it to reflect, that although you were so fully convinced of the benevolence of the Father of Mankind, and of his equal and impartial distribution of these rights and privileges, which he hath conferred upon them, that you should at the same time counteract his mercies, in detaining by fraud and violence so numerous a part of my brethren, under groaning captivity and cruel oppression, that you should at the same time be found guilty of that most criminal act, which you professedly detested in others, with respect to yourselves"
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Mathematicians from the United StatesFarmersAfrican AmericansAstronomers from the United StatesScientists from Maryland
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Letter to Thomas Jefferson on slavery (19 August 1791)
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Benjamin Banneker
Benjamin Banneker, originally Banna Ka or Bannakay, (9 November 1731 – 9 October 1806) was a free African American mathematician, astronomer, surveyor, almanac author, and farmer.
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