Black History Year

How This Great Inventor Called Out Thomas Jefferson’s Hypocrisy

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Benjamin Banneker was infuriated! After designing the nation’s capital and inventing gadgets to benefit everyday life, our people were STILL treated like chattel. It was time for a public dragging, and he knew exactly whose wig he needed to snatch.

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