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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.
1 lug 2004 · 3.43. 47 ratings3 reviews. 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.
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1 set 2006 · The remainder of the book analyzes Franklin's part in asserting white America's English identity between 1765 and 1775 and constructing America's new identity after independence. The central role of slavery in the evolving imperial dispute presented Franklin with a daunting challenge.
- Owen S. Ireland
- 2006
8 apr 2020 · Language. English. xv, 315 p. : 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. Runaways and self-made men -- Fathers, brothers, and masters -- Friends, saviors, and slaves -- People and capital -- Children and colonies -- Printers, agents, and blackened men -- America the enslaved -- America the free -- The long arm of ...
10 ago 2005 · America's freedom, no less than Franklin's, demanded that others forgo liberty. Through the life of Franklin, Runaway America provides an original explanation to the paradox of American slavery and freedom.
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- David Waldstreicher
- $14.78
- Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3PL
Macmillan, 2004 - Biography & Autobiography - 315 pages. Scientist, abolitionist, revolutionary: that is the Benjamin Franklin we know and celebrate. To this description, the talented young...
Runaway slaves from the Princeton area used sophisticated knowledge of the late-18th and early-19th century’s changing legal and political landscape when they planned their escapes, forcing slave-owners to acknowledge their resourcefulness and determination to liberate themselves. $100 Reward.
