#OTD Benjamin Banneker joined the ancestors (Nov 9, 1731 - Oct 9, 1806). Naturalist, mathematician, astronomer, almanac author, landowner, surveyor, farmer. Banneker had little formal education and was largely self-taught. His enslaved father may have come from the Dogon tribe which had knowledge of astronomy, and he was encouraged by the Ellicott family, Quakers who ran a grist mill in Baltimore County, Maryland near Banneker's farm.
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