Africans in America: America's Journey through Slavery, from PBS
Africans in America: America's Journey through Slavery, from PBS ExternalThe Africans in America Web site is a companion to Africans in America, a six-hour public television series. The site examines the economic and intellectual foundations of slavery in America and the global economy that prospered from it. And it reveals how the presence of African people and their struggle for freedom transformed America.
The site includes the following entries pertaining to Benjamin Banneker:
The Banneker-Douglass Museum
The Banneker-Douglass MuseumThe Banneker-Douglass Museum, named for Benjamin Banneker and Frederick Douglass, was dedicated on February 24, 1984. As the State of Maryland’s official museum of African American heritage, the Banneker-Douglass Museum serves to document, interpret, and promote the history and culture of African American Marylanders through exhibitions, programs and projects in order to improve the understanding and appreciating of American’s rich cultural diversity for all.
Benjamin Banneker Historical Park & Museum
The Church in the Southern Black Community, 1780-1925
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A school history of the Negro race in America... ExternalSummary: Sketches of slavery as it existed in the colonies--Northern and Southern. He presents the accomplishments of some of the most distinguished slaves, including poets Phillis Wheatley and George Moses Horton, as well as the mathematician and astronomer, Benjamin Banneker.
Early Americas Digital Archive (EADA)
Early Americas Digital Archive (EADA) ExternalThe Early Americas Digital Archive (EADA) is a collection of electronic texts originally written in or about the Americas from 1492 to approximately 1820. EADA is published and supported by the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH), at the University of Maryland.
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The Washington Interdependence Council (WIC)
