BLM Shop Artwork - Benjamin Banneker

Benjamin Banneker was a free African-American almanac author, surveyor, landowner and farmer who had knowledge of mathematics and natural history. Born in Baltimore County, Maryland, to a free African-American woman and a former slave, Banneker had little or no formal education and was largely self-taught. Calculating the proper number of teeth for each gear and the necessary relationships between the gears, he completed construction of a working wooden clock in 1753 that kept accurate time and struck the hours for over 50 years until it was destroyed along with most of Banneker’s other belongings in a mysterious house fire that took place on the day of Banneker’s funeral. Benjamin Banneker has been credited for making the first clock to be built completely in America.

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Original artwork by Curtis Edwards 5 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches ink on watercolor paper $40

Digital Prints are 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches unnumbered $10

All proceeds will go directly to benefit the following charities:

Black Lives Matter

ACLU

Community Bail Funds

Southern Poverty Law Center