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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.
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- David Waldstreicher
- $14.78
- Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3PL
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.
1 de jul. de 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 de set. de 2006 · The paradox of freedom and slavery in their Revolution has long troubled Americans. Critics have emphasized the hypocrisy of the founders who claimed liberty for themselves while enslaving Africans.
- Owen S. Ireland
- 2006
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 · Runaway America: Benjamin Franklin, Slavery, and the American Revolution. David Waldstreicher. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Aug 10, 2005 - Biography & Autobiography - 336 pages. Scientist,...
