I hate to say it but slavery is apart of our world history. It happened we are not proud of it. We apologize every year more than once. Benjamin Banneker, the son of former slaves, was a farmer, astronomer, mathematician, surveyor and author. In 1971 he wrote to Thomas Jefferson. He wanted to let Jefferson know how it felt to be struggling, to let him know God made all men equal. Banneker makes numerous religious appeals that attack Jefferson’s Pro-Slavery Standpoint. Banneker says writes to Jefferson “This sir, was a time in which you clearly saw into the injustice of a state of slavery and in which you had just apprehensions of the horrors of its condition...” Telling Jefferson that while his family was suffering he sat there safe and sound
