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Book Review


Runaway America: Benjamin Franklin, Slavery, and the American Revolution. By David Waldstreicher. (New York: Hill and Wang, 2004. xvi, 315 pp. Cloth, $25.00, ISBN 0-8090-8314-0. Paper, $15.00, ISBN 0-8090-8315-9.)
The paradox of freedom and slavery in their Revolution has long troubled Americans. Critics have emphasized the hypocrisy of the founders who claimed liberty for themselves while enslaving Africans. Others have admitted the founders' limitations, but praised them for igniting the contagion of liberty that ultimately ended slavery. Still others differentiate among the founders, condemning some, such as Thomas Jefferson, while praising others for their efforts to rid America of that stain. Benjamin Franklin often emerges as "the jewel in the founders' crown" (p. xi). . . .
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