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Your most humble servant / by Shirley Graham.
LIBRA QB36.B22 G7
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Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Circulating Collection QB36.B22 G7
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Du Bois, Shirley Graham, 1896-1977, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Banneker, Benjamin, 1731-1806.
- Banneker, Benjamin.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 235 pages : facsimile ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Julian Messner, Inc., [1949]
- Summary:
- A biography of Benjamin Banneker, eighteenth-century Negro, whose almanac, inventions, contributions to the planning of Washington, D.C., and letter to Thomas Jefferson on the right of Negroes made him a distinguished citizen in American history.
- Contents:
- Part one. As the season change
- The District of Columbia
- A small landowner
- The schoolmaster finds a pupil
- The road outside
- Part two. The heavens declare the glory
- Benjamin discovers time
- A flaming sign in the heavens
- To grow wheat in Maryland
- Yankee-Doodle goes to town
- The stars in their courses
- Part three. And the firmament shewth his handywork
- Mr. Jefferson writes two letters
- "Sir, I have the plans in my head"
- A plan for peace
- An error in calculations
- "I will lift up mine eyes".
- Notes:
- Includes "Notes on sources": page 227-235.
- Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards - Nonfiction, Winner, 1950
- OCLC:
- 2183743
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