Author: Benjamin Franklin
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Languages : en
Pages : 94
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Memoirs of Dr Benjamin Franklin: with a review of his pamphlet, entitled “Information to those who would wish to remove to America.”
Author: Benjamin Franklin
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Languages : en
Pages : 94
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Pages : 94
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Memoirs of the Late Dr. Benjamin Franklin
Author: Wilmer (Maryland loyalist.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 102
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Pages : 102
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Benjamin Franklin
Author: Christopher J. Murrey
Publisher: Nova Publishers
ISBN: 9781590333846
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 254
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Benjamin Franklin is generally considered one of America's most versatile and talented statesmen, scientists, and philosophers. His achievements include publisher of Poor Richard's Almanac and many articles on political, economic, religious, philosophical and scientific subjects. He was the inventor of bifocals, the Franklin stove, lightening rod, he was one of the signers of the 'Declaration of Independence', and the founder of, what is now the University of Pennsylvania. This book presents a detailed and riveting review of Franklin's life based on excerpts from the renowned 1899 book on Franklin by Sydney George Fisher. This overview is augmented by a substantial selective bibliography, which features access through title, subject and author indexes.
Publisher: Nova Publishers
ISBN: 9781590333846
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Benjamin Franklin is generally considered one of America's most versatile and talented statesmen, scientists, and philosophers. His achievements include publisher of Poor Richard's Almanac and many articles on political, economic, religious, philosophical and scientific subjects. He was the inventor of bifocals, the Franklin stove, lightening rod, he was one of the signers of the 'Declaration of Independence', and the founder of, what is now the University of Pennsylvania. This book presents a detailed and riveting review of Franklin's life based on excerpts from the renowned 1899 book on Franklin by Sydney George Fisher. This overview is augmented by a substantial selective bibliography, which features access through title, subject and author indexes.
Catalogue of the American Library of the Late Mr. George Brinley
Author: George Brinley
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 762
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 762
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Catalogue of the American library of ... George Brinley [by J.H. Trumbull]. (Special ed.).
Author: James Hammond Trumbull
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Languages : en
Pages : 444
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Pages : 444
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Catalogue of the American Library of the Late Mr. George Brinley of Hartford, Conn
Author: George Brinley
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 254
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 254
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Benjamin Franklin's Life and Writings
Author: Henry Stevens (Jr.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 78
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Pages : 78
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Benjamin Franklin's life and writings, a bibliographical essay on the Stevens' collection of books and MSS. relating to dr. Franklin
Author: Henry Stevens
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Languages : en
Pages : 108
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Pages : 108
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The English Review, Or, An Abstract of English and Foreign Literature
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Category : Curiosities and wonders
Languages : en
Pages : 508
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Category : Curiosities and wonders
Languages : en
Pages : 508
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Runaway America
Author: David Waldstreicher
Publisher: Hill and Wang
ISBN: 1466821523
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
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 notion of freedom we associate with both. Franklin was the sole Founding Father who was once owned by someone else and was among the few to derive his fortune from slavery. 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) but also ran 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.
Publisher: Hill and Wang
ISBN: 1466821523
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
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 notion of freedom we associate with both. Franklin was the sole Founding Father who was once owned by someone else and was among the few to derive his fortune from slavery. 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) but also ran 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.