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Franklin and Grant weren't slave owners. Still, they are white and better safe than sorry.PM me for details.
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Franklin and Grant weren't slave owners. Still, they are white and better safe than sorry.
Source? Franklin lived in Philadelphia. Grant was an Ohio man and was relatively poor up until the Civil War.Franklin owned two slaves. Grant had at least one slave to his name.
Source? Franklin lived in Philadelphia. Grant was an Ohio man and was relatively poor up until the Civil War.
http://www.benjaminfranklinhouse.org/site/sections/about_franklin/Issue 5 Spring-Summer 200 Benjamin Franklin and Slavery.pdfBenjamin Franklin House said:We know that Franklin owned Peter and his wife Jemima, and a young boy named Othello, who may gave[sic] been their son, bought in June 1757 for £41 and 10 shillings. Other slaves in the Franklin household were George and John. Deborah wrote to Franklin in June 1772 that since the death of George’s wife, he had become a ‘dredfull cryer’.
https://www.nps.gov/ulsg/learn/historyculture/slaveryatwh.htmNational Parks and Services said:In 1859, Grant freed William Jones, the only slave he is known to have owned.
“I Ulysses S. Grant…do hereby manumit, emancipate and set free from Slavery my Negro man William, sometimes called William Jones…forever.”
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