Benjamin Franklin called for Prohibition of slavery...during our founding. Did anyone notice this? Have you read about this or any other prohibitor in a government given, public education history book of modern day, misinformation? ... a disposition to abolish slavery prevails in North America, that many of Pennsylvanians have set their slaves at liberty, and that even the Virginia Assembly have petitioned the King for permission to make a law for preventing the importation of more into that colony. This request, however will probably not be granted as their former laws of that kind have always been repealed. - Benjamin Franklin, United States Founding Father, Signer of the Declaration of Independence, Signer of the Constitution, The Works of Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks, editor, (Boston: Tappan, Whittemore, and Mason, 1839), Vol. VIII, P. 42, to the Reverend Dean Woodward on April 10, 1773
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