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8 de abr. de 2020 · 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 Benjamin Franklin.
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.
Macmillan, 2004 - Biography & Autobiography - 315 pages. Scientist, abolitionist, revolutionary: that is the Benjamin Franklin we know and celebrate. To this description, the talented young...
10 de ago. de 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.
1 de sept. de 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.
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