Benjamin Franklin was a product of the colonial development of America. He was the image of a self-made man who toiled, as did most of the colonists, and fought for their fortunes or lack-there-of. However, like most of the colonists felt before the war for independence, Franklin was also very proud and fanatical of the greatness of the British Empire. After countless encounters with Englishmen and the English press, monarchy, and parliament all fervently denying the value of the colonists, the support of an American gentleman could not be kept. Franklin and a large percentage of the Englishmen and women colonists could no longer support their casting as the bastard sons and daughters of England.
An ardent promoter of the British Empire …show more content…
He considered colonist to be Englishmen; no different than those Englishmen in Europe only separated by a mass of water. “They spoke the same language, possessed the same manners, read the same books, and shared the same religion.” The Empire should, according to him, unite as a “single community made up only of Englishmen." This was his greatest aspiration. To bring both the British Empire and centered its capitol on the North American continent. Having been planning the true unification of the English Empire with the North American colonies since his governmental affinity with the mother country began in the 1740s, he proposed the Albany Plan of Union which would create an “intercolonial union for Indian affairs” protecting the interest of the colonist and the empire on the banks of the Ohio River to the west of the established colonies but would also be a “defense” for a government that would “transcend the governments of the several …show more content…
Flawed in his inability to foresee how wrong his actions could be for him, for his status, for his family, and even for his homeland. It nevertheless establishes a narrative that many books simply leave out – the humanization of the founding guys. Woods shows how one of the most revere men in the United States, ever, displayed countless errors overtime and how his blinding affinity delayed what was to most colonists, inevitable. Franklin’s portrayal was unique in that it provided both the aristocratic perspective that many currently still see him as having and his average exposé or reveal. Whether it be out of pure inevitableness or shrewd political unwillingness to accommodate the call for unification of both mother county and adopted colonies, Woods outlines and clearly explains that man, in conjunction with various failed political efforts and arrogance would be the opus of a new American
An ardent promoter of the British Empire …show more content…
He considered colonist to be Englishmen; no different than those Englishmen in Europe only separated by a mass of water. “They spoke the same language, possessed the same manners, read the same books, and shared the same religion.” The Empire should, according to him, unite as a “single community made up only of Englishmen." This was his greatest aspiration. To bring both the British Empire and centered its capitol on the North American continent. Having been planning the true unification of the English Empire with the North American colonies since his governmental affinity with the mother country began in the 1740s, he proposed the Albany Plan of Union which would create an “intercolonial union for Indian affairs” protecting the interest of the colonist and the empire on the banks of the Ohio River to the west of the established colonies but would also be a “defense” for a government that would “transcend the governments of the several …show more content…
Flawed in his inability to foresee how wrong his actions could be for him, for his status, for his family, and even for his homeland. It nevertheless establishes a narrative that many books simply leave out – the humanization of the founding guys. Woods shows how one of the most revere men in the United States, ever, displayed countless errors overtime and how his blinding affinity delayed what was to most colonists, inevitable. Franklin’s portrayal was unique in that it provided both the aristocratic perspective that many currently still see him as having and his average exposé or reveal. Whether it be out of pure inevitableness or shrewd political unwillingness to accommodate the call for unification of both mother county and adopted colonies, Woods outlines and clearly explains that man, in conjunction with various failed political efforts and arrogance would be the opus of a new American