Franklin’s last satire, On the Slave-Trade, written and published in the Federal Gazette (March 25, 1790) some three weeks before his death, shows his consistency of method in this same respect. Here, in answering pro-slavery arguments of Congressman Jackson, Franklin asks his Christian readers to put themselves in the place of the ***** slaves in the Deep South. Alluding to the fact that Christians were sometimes captured and sold into slavery by the Moslems...
Andrew Jackson (1767-1845), was the 7th President of the United States of America. He was also a lawyer, a Congressman, a U.S. Senator and a judge on the Tennessee Supreme Court. Andrew Jackson also has the credit for proposing the state's name, "Tennessee," while being a member of the state's first convention which adopted its constitution.
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