[PDF.61hx] Runaway America: Benjamin Franklin, Slavery, and the American Revolution

Runaway America: Benjamin Franklin, Slavery, and the American Revolution

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 | #851789 in Books |  Hill and Wang |  2005-08-10 |  2005-07-14 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.50 x.74 x5.50l,.94 | File type: PDF | 336 pages

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||1 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Great read for a new view on 18th Century elites|By Brooks Rudy|This book takes many of the preconceptions we have about the framers of early American society, and turns them on their head. The author uses Benjamin Franklin to do so, with extraordinary detail and poignancy. If you would like to keep that farily tale version of colonial America your first grade teacher gave you,|From Publishers Weekly|Why another biography of Franklin? Because this is a distinctive, long-overdue effort to ask some tough questions about someone who is usually given a pass for his genius and charm by otherwise critical historians and biographers. If Walds

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. But Runaway America does much more than revise our image of a beloved founding father. Finding slavery at the center of Franklin's life, Waldstreicher proves it was likewise central to the Revolution, America's founding, and the very noti...

You easily download any file type for your device.Runaway America: Benjamin Franklin, Slavery, and the American Revolution   |  David Waldstreicher. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.

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