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Franklin's Philadelphia

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Franklin's 1784 Autobiography excerpt drives this activity: students judge it as a memoir written more than fifty years after the events, then weigh his civic building in Philadelphia against the fact that he and his wife Deborah enslaved at least seven people.

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