The obstacles that Benjamin Banneker faced are not that he went to a Quaker school, but that he had to live deal with a farm without help because his grandparents and parents died, his three sisters were married, living away from the farm, and wouldn't go back to the farm because they had their own family and worries to take care of.
Benjamin Banneker discovered the Trigonometry Puzzle
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Benjamin Banneker is known for being the first American-African Scientist in the United States. He is the one who made a model of clock of his own that last till' his death.
Benjamin Banneker's child was better than most in the 1730's. He was born to a free African American woman and a former slave. He had some formal education and was mostly self taught.
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According to the U*X*L Encyclopedia of World Biography. Ed. Laura B. Tyle. Vol. 1. p166-168. From Gale Virtual Reference Library, Benjamin Banneker had three sisters.
He was the first black scientist, astronomer, and he was a surveyor
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Benjamin Banneker lived to reach the ripe old age of 74, a long life for those times. There is a theory in some quarters that he was an alcoholic and this lead to his final illness and death. Banneker himself suggested that he should not drink so much; in fact, when he assisted in the survey of the Federal City, he indicates in his journal that he touched "nary a drop."