Your Most Humble Servant (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Shirley Graham
- First Published: 1949
- Time of Work: 1698–1804
- Setting: Elk Ridge, Maryland; Washington, D.C.; and Philadelphia
- Principal Characters: Benjamin Banneker, Thomas Jefferson, Molly Walsh, Bannaky, George Ellicott, Peter Heinrich
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: African Americans, Family or family life, South or Southerners, Slavery or slaves, Interracial relationships, Science or scientists, Rural or country life, Writing, Clocks or watches, Biography, Inventions or inventors, Astronomy or astronomers
- Locales: Philadelphia, PA, Washington, D.C., Maryland
Form and Content
In Your Most Humble Servant, Shirley Graham has produced a biography of Benjamin Banneker, an African American who was born free in Maryland in 1731. The author begins her narrative in 1791, during Banneker’s mature years, when he and Major George Ellicott, under orders from Thomas Jefferson, traveled to Georgetown to design the new national capital of Washington, D.C. The author thereby demonstrates that Banneker was an accomplished scientist and was recognized as such by the highest authorities in the new United States of America. The book is divided...
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