An Audiobook Original. Performed by Robert Petkoff, Joe Morton, Simon Jones, Euan Morton & Nicola Barber.
Summary:
In this under-reported and under-taught story of the American Revolution, Phillip Goodrich describes the role Benjamin Franklin played in bringing the northern and southern colonies together against corrupt British rule. Along with an "Inner Circle" of British Abolitionists, Franklin worked behind the scenes to secure the freedom of a single American slave, James Somersett; and then, in cooperation with a vast network of colonial allies, set in motion a series of events that provided the impetus for northern patriots and politically cautious southern slaveholders to join forces
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