John Proctors speech, If he would have confessed

BENJAMIN BANNEKER
1731-1806

Benjamin Banneker was the proud son of Robert and Mary Bannaky, born in 1731.

Banneker's parents and grandparents were freed slaves, he grew up on his family's farm in Maryland

where he had cultivated a love of how thing's worked. Banneker's grandmother taught him and his

brother's how to read, using her Bible as a lesson book. Where he grew up there were no school's

for boy's to attend. Growing up as a normal kid, no one would of ever thought he would be one of

the greatest.

At age twenty-one, Banneker had a friend named Josef Levi, Levi had a simple patent

watch. Absolutely fascinated with the watch he took the watch apart. Banneker carved similar

watch pieces out of wood and made a clock of his own. The clock was so precise that it struck

every hour on the hour. So because of this project he then led to repair watches, clocks, and
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