Benjamin Franklin And The Abolition Of Slavery

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Benjamin Franklin drafted the Declaration of Independence and he negotiated Treaty of Paris in 1783, which ended the Revolutionary War. It was his skill diplomacy that ended that Revolutionary War.
Franklin helped the Society for Political Inquiries to enhance the knowledge of government in 1787. He also helped abolish slavery in 1790. He served as a president of the Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery. He wrote many tract to stop the abolition of slavery and petitioned the US congress to end the slavery and the slave trade.
His heroism exist in his numerous achievements in politics, his experimental creations, and accomplishments. Franklin contributions to the world of inventions, and science demonstrate his ideal

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