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Mathematician and Astronomer Benjamin Banneker Was Born

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Thomas Jefferson, 1828

Banneker and Jefferson's correspondence reveals Jefferson's contradictions when it comes to slavery

CREDIT: Pendleton's Lithography. "Thomas Jefferson, Third President of the United States." Engraving after an original painting by Gilber Stuart, circa 1828. By Popular Demand: Portraits of the Presidents and First Ladies, 1789-Present, American Memory collections, Library of Congress.



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