Runaway America: Benjamin Franklin, Slavery, and the American Revolution
David Waldstreicher’s Runaway America explores Benjamin Franklin alongside the history of slavery and the American Revolution. Framing Franklin within the political and social tensions of the founding era, the book offers a focused study of a major American figure and the contradictions surrounding the nation’s revolutionary beginnings.
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Runaway America examines Benjamin Franklin in the context of slavery and the American Revolution.
David Waldstreicher connects the life and public significance of a prominent American figure with the larger history of the revolutionary era.
The book considers how slavery shaped the political and historical world surrounding the American Revolution.
It offers a focused contribution to the study of Franklin, the founding period, and the contradictions of American history.
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