Son of former slaves, Benjamin Banneker, writes a letter in between the revolution and civil war about the unjust act of slavery. Banneker tries to identify that slavery is unjust. He uses his confident harsh tone towards Thomas Jefferson to elaborate that slavery is wrong and Jefferson knows it in a confident but insulting way. Banneker, in his first paragraph of his letter, compares how slaves feel is similar to how americans felt under the cruel british control. He shows this similarity by stating, “reflect on a time when every human aid seemed unavailable.” This quote is used in order to show that under british control americans were enslaved too, and how wrong that was. This forces jefferson to relate to the slaves and see how they