To: Enlightened1
I think he was being sarcastic but in case he wasn't, no, many of the Founding Fathers were from slave free parts of New England. Franklin, John Adams, Sam Adams, Thomas Payne, Paul Revere, none of them had slaves.
To: hinckley buzzard
I believe Franklin owned a slave at one point. Later he was a leader in the anti-slavery movement.
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