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

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Title:

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

Author:

Waldstreicher, David.

Personal Author:

Waldstreicher, David.

Edition:

First edition.

Publication Information:

New York : Hill and Wang, [2004]

Physical Description:

xv, 315 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Language:

English

Contents:

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.

Personal Subject:

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.

Subject Term:

Slavery -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 18th century.

Liberty -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 18th century.

Statesmen -- United States -- Biography.

Printers -- United States -- Biography.

Indentured servants -- United States -- Biography.

Slaveholders -- United States -- Biography.

Slavery.

Geographic Term:

United States -- Politics and government -- 1775-1783.