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"Scientist revolutionary, abolitionist; that is the Benjamin Franklin we know and celebrates. To this description, David Waldstreicher shows we must add runaway, slave master, and empire builder. But Runaway America does much more those 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 notion of freedom we associate with both." "Franklin was the sole Founding Father who was once owned by someone else. As an indentured servant, Franklin fled his master before his term was complete; as a struggling printer, he built a financial empire selling newspapers that not only advertised the goods of a slave economy (not to mention slaves themselves) but also run the notices that led to the recapture of runaway servants. Perhaps Waldstreicher's greatest achievement is in showing that this was not an ironic outcome but a calculated one. 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."--BOOK JACKET.
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Biography, Politics and government, History, Slaveholders, Slavery, Liberty, Political aspects of Slavery, Political aspects of Liberty, Indentured servants, Printers, Statesmen, Slavery, united states, history, United states, politics and government, 1783-1809, Franklin, benjamin, 1706-1790, United states, politics and government, 1775-1783, Political aspectsPlaces
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Runaway America: Benjamin Franklin, Slavery, and the American Revolution
July 14, 2005, Hill and Wang
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0809083159 9780809083152
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Runaway America: Benjamin Franklin, Slavery, and the American Revolution
2005, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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1466821523 9781466821521
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Runaway America: Benjamin Franklin, slavery, and the American Revolution
2004, Hill and Wang
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"In 1723 Benjamin Franklin was a seventeen-year-old apprentice printer and the servant of a master in serious trouble."
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