With more than 700 pithy proverbs, this work lays out the ruiles you should live by and offers advice on such subjects as money, friendship, marriage, ethics, and human nature.
Contains the text of each of the twenty-six issues of Poor Richard's almanac ... For the most part, meteorological and astonomical material has been omitted, as well as a few factual articles ...
Banneker, a free black mathematician and astronomer, takes a stand against slavery and writes Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson about his slave-owning policies.