Benjamin Banneker was a self-educated mathematician and astronomer. Banneker was America?s first black man of science. The name Banneker origedanated from Bannakar his granddad name which meant ?Power?. Born in 1731 a free black oldest to three girls and look over his sisters while his parents were working in the fields, Banneker was raised on a tobacco plantation in the British Colony of Maryland. Banneker received little formal schooling because he had to help his …showed first 75 words of 270 total…

…showed last 75 words of 270 total…the District of Columbia, the young nation new capital. In 1791 Banneker left the survey to complete his scientific work. With that said Banneker published his first almanac later in the year, and antislavery activists were quick to champion the accomplishment. In deed, where ever abolitionists argued that blacks deserved the same opportunities as a white man, the person they singled out most often as a model of black achievement was non other than Benjamin Bannekers