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To repair this denial of slavery, the book explores freedom and bondage as two sides of the same coin, especially Franklin's "knack for eloquently finessing" slavery's "continuous presence in his life, thought,
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.
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- 2006
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 ...
1 lug 2004 · Scientist, abolitionist, that is the Benjamin Franklin we know and celebrate. To this description, the talented young historian David Waldstreicher shows we must add runaway, slave master, and empire builder. But Runaway America does much more than revise our image of a beloved founding father.
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10 ago 2005 · Scientist, abolitionist, revolutionary: that is the Benjamin Franklin we know and celebrate. To this description, the talented young historian David Waldstreicher shows we must add runaway, slave master, and empire builder.
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- David Waldstreicher
- $14.78
- Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3PL
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21 mag 2021 · This essay reveals the ways that runaways and abolitionists, through their critiques of American prisons in the decades prior to the American Civil War, collectively originated the ideas and practices of prison abolition. It began with fugitive slaves who named slavery the ‘prison house’.
