Word: benjamin
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...Rights of British America?a trenchant and almost bellicose pamphlet reviewing the history of America in the British Empire. Some say, however, that Jefferson was only named to the committee as part of a compromise, after John Adams had nearly choked on the idea of working with Virginia's Benjamin Harrison, who was comparatively lukewarm to independence...
...DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE underwent numerous changes, mostly minor but some major, before Congress approved it last week. The editing process is illustrated in key excerpts. The words that are crossed out and replaced in roman type are alterations made after Thomas Jefferson consulted with John Adams and Benjamin Franklin. The bracketed words were cut and the italicized words were added by the Congress...
...nearly a decade, Admiral Howe, now 50 and three years the elder of the pair, has voted in Parliament against coercive measures toward the Colonies. Eighteen months ago, he met Benjamin Franklin, who, while serving as a colonial envoy in Britain, had begun playing chess with Howe's sprightly widowed sister Caroline, 54. Admiral Howe soon started consulting Franklin in an attempt to work out compromise peace proposals. He also unsuccessfully sought permission from Lord North's ministry to lead a peace delegation to the Colonies himself...
...been stirred by the belief that the rights of man are as universal as Jefferson has said. Thomas Paine of the Pennsylvania Magazine has published an article arguing that the slave, "who is proper owner of his freedom, has a right to reclaim it, however often sold." Adds Dr. Benjamin Rush, a leader of a Philadelphia antislavery movement: "The plant of liberty is of so tender a nature, that it cannot thrive long in the neighborhood of slavery...
Even before the current drive for economic independence, America was already heading in that direction. The first foundry for casting type for printers was set up in 1769, and only last year Benjamin Franklin brought back from France enough equipment for a complete type foundry along modern French lines. Even the pianoforte no longer has to be imported; John Behrent produced the first one in Philadelphia last year...