{"id":35370,"date":"2015-01-27T14:24:18","date_gmt":"2015-01-27T19:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/?p=35370"},"modified":"2015-01-27T15:19:09","modified_gmt":"2015-01-27T20:19:09","slug":"banneker-benjaminmathematician-astornomer-inventor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/banneker-benjaminmathematician-astornomer-inventor\/","title":{"rendered":"Banneker, Benjamin(Mathematician, Astornomer, Inventor, And"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(<a class=\"postlink-local\" href=\"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/african-american\/\">More Information On African Americans<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/banneker_benjamin_300x300.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-thumbnail wp-image-35371 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/banneker_benjamin_300x300-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"banneker_benjamin_300x300\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/banneker_benjamin_300x300-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/banneker_benjamin_300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/banneker_benjamin_300x300-64x64.jpg 64w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>Benjamin Banneker (November 9, 1731 \u2013 October 9, 1806) was a free African American scientist, surveyor, almanac author 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. He is known for being part of a group led by Major Andrew Ellicott that surveyed the borders of the original District of Columbia, the federal capital district of the United States.<br \/>\nBanneker&#8217;s knowledge of astronomy helped him author a commercially successful series of almanacs. He corresponded with Thomas Jefferson, drafter of the United States Declaration of Independence, on the topics of slavery and racial equality. Abolitionists and advocates of racial equality promoted and praised his works.<br \/>\nParks, schools, streets and other tributes have commemorated Banneker throughout the years since he lived. However, many accounts of his life exaggerate or falsely attribute his works<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"postlink\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Benjamin_Banneker\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Click Here For More Information<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(More Information On African Americans) Benjamin Banneker (November 9, 1731 \u2013 October 9, 1806) was a free African American scientist, surveyor, almanac author 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. He is known for being part [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":301,"featured_media":35371,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-posts","category-history-math-science-etc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/301"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}