A poster in the Gallery place metro says..........take the silver line to the silver screen...............silver is very much like grey....................Grey was the color of the Confederacy..............and the silver line goes into Virginia............where a ton of early Pres. are from and where the capital of the Confederacy was..............did u ever notice that everything dedicated to Tom Jefferson, a Virginian, is on the South side of DC?..............the Jefferson memorial, the Jefferson library of Congress............and Jefferson dr........one of two streets inside DC's mall.......................He was also a slave owner..............which is what Banneker spoke out against..........



Good for you my man............stand up for what u believe in.................

Letter to Jefferson

Banneker's confidence extended into other realms. During Thomas Jefferson's tenure as secretary of state, Banneker wrote the respected Virginian and attacked his proslavery stance. He criticized Jefferson, a slave owner himself, for his "absurd and false ideas" and urged him to recognize that "one Universal Father…afforded us all the same sensations and endowed us all with the same faculties."
To his credit, Jefferson acknowledged Banneker's letter, writing him a response, which Banneker published alongside his original piece of correspondence in his 1793 almanac.
Banneker's outspokenness with regard to the issue of slavery earned him the widespread support of the abolitionist societies in Maryland and Pennsylvania, both of which helped him publish his almanac.
Benjamin Banneker died in Baltimore, Maryland, on October 25, 1806. He was buried at the family burial ground near his house.