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Edward J. Larson

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  • Peter Waddell's "A Vision Unfolds" imaginatively depicts Benjamin Banneker advising President Washington and fellow surveyor Andrew Ellicott on the layout of the proposed federal capital.

    Banneker’s Answer to Jefferson: “I Am an American”

    The black naturalist, astronomer, surveyor, and almanac-writer Benjamin Banneker took issue with Thomas Jefferson’s attitude toward “those of my complexion.”
    by Edward J. Larson via American Heritage on November 21, 2023
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American Inheritance: Liberty and Slavery in the Birth of a Nation, 1765-1795
Edward J. Larson
2023

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An abolitionist lithograph depicting enslaved people celebrating the Fourth of July while a white judge sits on bales of cotton with his feet on the Constitution, 1840

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The factionalized press was the site of campaigning in the U.S.'s first contested presidential elections.
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