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Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners.

Benjamin Banneker

How pitiable is it to reflect, that although you were so fully convinced of the benevolence of the Father of Mankind, and of his equal and impartial distribution of these rights and privileges, which he hath conferred upon them, that you should at the same time counteract his mercies, in detaining by fraud and violence so numerous a part of my brethren, under groaning captivity and cruel oppression, that you should at the same time be found guilty of that most criminal act, which you professedly detested in others, with respect to yourselves

Benjamin Banneker

Benjamin Banneker

Benjamin Banneker

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Born: November 9, 1731

Died: October 9, 1806 (aged 74)

Bio: Benjamin Banneker was a free African American almanac author, surveyor, naturalist and farmer. Born in Baltimore County, Maryland, to a free African American woman and a former slave, Banneker had little formal education and was largely self-taught.

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