Speaking of dinero…..Please boycott and do NOT use the $1.oo, $20.oo, $50.00, & &100.00 bills, as they depict slave owners on them. Gather all of these hideous forms of racism and send them to me, and I will see to it that they are disposed of properly. You don’t have to thank me, I do this as a public service for my country.
Franklin owned two slaves, George and King, who worked as personal servants, and his newspaper, the Pennsylvania Gazette, commonly ran notices involving the sale or purchase of slaves and contracts for indentured laborers.
Speaking of dinero…..Please boycott and do NOT use the $1.oo, $20.oo, $50.00, & &100.00 bills, as they depict slave owners on them. Gather all of these hideous forms of racism and send them to me, and I will see to it that they are disposed of properly. You don’t have to thank me, I do this as a public service for my country.
Your selfless heroism makes me weep (that I didn’t think of this first).
Ben Franklin owned slaves?
Per PBS:
Franklin owned two slaves, George and King, who worked as personal servants, and his newspaper, the Pennsylvania Gazette, commonly ran notices involving the sale or purchase of slaves and contracts for indentured laborers.
http://www.pbs.org/benfranklin/l3_citizen_abolitionist.html
You trust PBS?