Hydroelectric power and natural gas was introduced in the late 1800s
They were hated, tortured, and people attempted to kill them until they reached Utah. They called it their "Zion".
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. :)