Before he helped launch a revolution, Benjamin Franklin was colonial ... Franklin was the first printer outside Boston to broker slaves regularly through his newspaper, and his commercial success ...

Though he learned a lot about newspaper publishing, Franklin was routinely ... The American Revolution At First At the signing of the Declaration of Independence, Benjamin Franklin allegedly ...

Schiff, the author of “The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams,” is at work on a book about Benjamin Franklin ... In October 1774, the First Continental Congress resolved to dispatch an appeal ...