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8 apr 2020 · Runaway America : Benjamin Franklin, slavery, and the American Revolution. by. Waldstreicher, David. Publication date. 2004. Topics. Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790, Slavery -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 18th century, Liberty -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 18th century, Statesmen -- United ...
Macmillan, 2004 - Biography & Autobiography - 315 pages. Scientist, abolitionist, revolutionary: that is the Benjamin Franklin we know and celebrate. To this description, the talented young...
treicher's Franklin expresses "a runaway's antislavery: compromised, and compromising" (244); too much shaped by Franklin's personal en-gagement with unfreedom to be the kind of moral commitment to aboli-tion that later Americans would hope to see championed by their famous founders.
10 ago 2005 · Runaway America: Benjamin Franklin, Slavery, and the American Revolution. David Waldstreicher. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Aug 10, 2005 - Biography & Autobiography - 336 pages. Scientist,...
1 set 2006 · Critics have emphasized the hypocrisy of the founders who claimed liberty for themselves while enslaving Africans. Others have admitted the founders' limitations, but praised them for igniting the contagion of liberty that ultimately ended slavery.
- Owen S. Ireland
- 2006
During the summer of 1803 John Reed, a fugitive slave from Kentucky, turned up on the streets of Detroit. About the same time, a runaway slave advertisement by his master, one Colonel Grant, also reached the city. It promised a substantial reward. Daniel Ransom, an agent of Reed’s owner, also reached the city.
David Waldstreicher. Runaway America: Benjamin Franklin, Slavery, and the American Revolution. New York: Hill & Wang, 2004. xv + 315 pp. $25.00, cloth, ISBN 978-0-8090-8314-5. Benjamin Franklin has become a stock char‐acter of American history.
