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Benjamin Bradley: Slave turned inventor
Lily-white porn star Benjamin Bradley is definitely not the Benjamin Bradley who was born a slave in Maryland in 1830. At age 16, the young prodigy built the first steam-powered war ship out of scrap metal, and although he unable to patent it due to laws which prohibited slaves from registering patents, he was able to use the proceeds to pay his slave master to make himself a free man.
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