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Benjamin Banneker
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, the son of Robert and Mary Bannaky was born in Baltimore County, Maryland in 1731. His grandfather was a slave from Africa and his grandmother was an indentured servant from England. His grandfather was an African prince known as Banna Ka , then later as Bannaky, and his grandmother, Molly Wal ....
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....tellectual growth occurred when he was twenty-one. A traveling salesman, Josef Levi, gave Banneker the gift of a pocket watch. Benjamin had never seen anything like this. He spent weeks taking the watch apart and reassembling it to understand the watches inner workings. In 1752 he carved similar watch pieces out of wood and made a clock of his own; the first striking clock to be made completely in America. His clock was so precise that it struck every hour, on the hour for forty years. His w.... |
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