Title page from The Works of Benjamin Franklin, Vol. XII Letters and Misc. Writings 1788-1790, Supplement, Indexes

Part of: The Works of Benjamin Franklin, in 12 vols. The Works of Benjamin Franklin, Vol. XII Letters and Misc. Writings 1788-1790, Supplement, Indexes

Volume 12 of a 12 volume collection of Franklin’s works. Vol. 12 contains letters and miscellaneous writings from 1788 to 1790, and additional letters from 1743 to 1785, and Indexes.

Key Quotes

Colonies, Slavery & Abolition

Slavery is such an atrocious debasement of human nature, that its very extirpation, if not performed with solicitous care, may sometimes open a source of serious evils. The unhappy man, who has long been treated as a brute animal, too frequently sinks beneath the common standard of the human…