Benjamin Banneker: Letter to Thomas Jefferson

Further Reading

Books

• Bedini, Silvio A. The Life of Benjamin Banneker. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1972.
• Finkelman, Paul. Defending Slavery: Proslavery Thought in the Old South. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2003.
• Zinn, Howard, and Arnold Arnove, eds. Voices of a People’s History of the United States. New York: Seven Stories Press, 2004.

Web Sites

• “Today in History: November 9.” Library of Congress “American Memory” Web site. memory.loc.gov/nov09.html.
• “Africans in America/Part 2/Benjamin Banneker.” PBS Online Web site. www.pbs.org/wgbh/2p84.html.