> maybe he would've gone on to study at a formal college or teach? Seems unlikely as he would have been fairly busy running his plantation and being the local

> maybe he would've gone on to study at a formal college or teach? Seems unlikely as he would have been fairly busy running his plantation and being the local JP. He was pretty successful, at least for the next 10 years, so it's not clear that a patent for a minor improvement to propeller design would have affected his life significantly. > there are not as many intellectual African Americans at the forefront of American society Are there not? I don't get the impression that this is true in fields such as history and the social sciences but I could be mistaken.