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Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall) 4 0 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Banneker, Benjamin, 1731-1806 (search)
Banneker, Benjamin, 1731-1806 A negro mathematician; born in Maryland, Nov. 9, 1731. He taught himself mathematics; and for many years, while engaged in daily labor, made the necessary calculations for and published an almanac for Maryland and the adjoining States. Mr. Jefferson presented one of his almanacs to the French Academy of Sciences, where it excited wonder and admiration, and the African almanac became well known to the scientific circles of Europe. In 1790 he was employed by the commissioners in the survey of the boundaries of the District of Columbia. His grandmother was an Englishwoman, who purchased a small plantation in Maryland, bought two slaves from a ship just from Africa and married one of them. He died in Baltimore, in October, 1806.
Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall), To the same. (search)
to lead them out of bondage, telling them, Remember they who would be free, themselves must strike the blow! And all this in Nashville where Amos Dresser, thirty years ago, was publicly flogged for having an abolition tract in his carpet-bag! Then to think of Maryland wheeling into the circle of free States, with ringing of bells and waving of banners! To think of the triumphal arch in the streets of Baltimore, whereon, with many honored historical names, were inscribed the names of Benjamin Banneker and R. R. Forten, two colored men! Glory to God! This is marvellous progress. Glory to God! Hallelujah! Miss Cobbe's introduction to the Life of Theodore Parker I like extremely. It is a truly manly production; thus we are obliged to compliment the superior sex when we seek to praise our own. I have also been reading her Broken lights. Her analysis of the present state of the churches is very clear and complete. Concerning her C Church of the future I am more doubtful. Stern
Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall), Index. (search)
rs. Child, XXIII. An English governess at the Siamese Court, 210. Animals, the treatment of, 214. Anti-Slavery Society (Mass.), annual meeting of, mobbed, 148-150. Appeal in behalf of that Class of Americans called Africans, by Mrs. Child, IX., 48, 195. Armstrong, General, and Hampton Institute, 241. Arnold, Edwin, 257. Aspirations of the world, by Mrs, Child, XIX., 246. Aurora Leigh, by Mrs. Browning, 87, 197. Autobiography of a female slave, 90, 132. B. Banneker, Benjamin, 184. Beecher, Henry Ward, magnetic power of, 193; defends the Chinese, 251. Beethoven's music contrasted with Mendelssohn's, 76. Benson, Edmund, 89. Berrien, John McP., U. S. Senator, anecdote of, 179. Bettine and Goethe, 50, 51. Bible, anti-slavery texts from, 123-125. Bishop, Madame Anna, 140. Bleby, Rev., Henry, 134. Boston Athenaeum, privileges of, given to, and withdrawn from, Mrs. Child, 195, 264. Boutwell, George S , speech of, 168. Bremer, Fredrika,