Were Franklin to visit the here and now, I would hope he would admit that the best thing the USA could have done for the freed slaves was to transport them back to the lands from which they came.
I'm afraid our Ben was always a social liberal. He even thought "mohametans" could fit right into our new republic.
Wow. As a fellow vet I find that comment incredibly ignorant. Over my 20+ years in the military I served with people of all races. There were blacks I would want in my foxhole and whites I wouldn’t, and vice versa. Blacks have just as much right to this country as any white person. Hell, in my genealogy my fathers side of the family didn’t come here until the late 1800s. I bet there are plenty of Blacks that can trace their ancestors back farther than that.