Did Benjamin Banneker have trouble with prejudice?

invent the clock.

It was the custom in colonial times for slaves or freed slaves to take the surname of their masters. As you know, slaves coming from Africa had names like Bannaka, which was later converted to...

Benjamin Banneker was a man who created a clock just by studying the interior of a watch. he had never seen a clock before. this clock was made almost entirely of wood. He also was a brilliant...

he showed Jefferson how Jefferson was wrong in Jefferson's views of african americans by quoting Jefferson in a letter to Jefferson about how blacks were not inferior like Jefferson said and went...

http://www.blackinventor.com/pages/benjamin-banneker.htmlHe became a clock maker after Josef Levi gave him a watch. He took it apart to figure out how it worked, put it back together, and then made a...