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Letter from Benjamin Banneker to Thomas Jefferson (August 19, 1791) – Encyclopedia Virginia
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Benjamin Banneker s Broods of Cicadas
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Benjamin Banneker writes to Thomas Jefferson, urging justice for African Americans
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by Robert P. Watson
Robert P. Watson is Distinguished Professor of History at Lynn University and the author or editor of over 40 books, including George Washington’s Final Battle: The Epic Struggle to Build a Capital City and Nation (Georgetown University Press, 2021).
We now find ourselves more divided than any time since the Civil War. As we endeavor to heal the deep cultural rifts and renew a sense of political unity, we would do well to consider a moment in history.
Against all odds, George Washington and a ragtag band of poorly trained blacksmiths and ill-equipped farmers managed to pull off a most unlikely victory in the Revolutionary War. While the cessation of military operations in 1783 brought a long-awaited peace to the former colonies and freedom from the Crown, the struggle for independence was not over. Far from it. For the colonists, it would not be a simple matter of transitioning from soldier to citizen or from revolutionary to American. Rather
BATAVIA â When most hear the name Ellicott, they instantly think of Joseph, and rightly so.
However, he was not the only Ellicott to make his name in the early history of the United States. In fact, he was overshadowed in many ways by his older brother, Andrew Ellicott.
It was, in fact, Andrew who taught Joseph much of what he knew concerning surveying and was his assistant on many of Andrewâs major projects.
Andrew was born on Jan. 24, 1754, the first of nine children of Joseph and Judith Ellicott. As a student, he was a talented mechanic and mathematician.
He married Sarah Brown in 1775, with whom he had 10 children of his own. During the Revolutionary War, he was a commissioned officer in the Elk Ridge Battalion of the Maryland state militia, eventually rising to the rank of major.