Benjamin and William Franklin Father and Son, Patriot and Loyalist,9780312086176

Benjamin and William Franklin Father and Son, Patriot and Loyalist

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ISBN13: 9780312086176
ISBN10: 0312086172
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1994-03-15
Publisher(s): Bedford/St. Martin's
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Summary

The American Revolution was a civil war as well as a war for independence. The experience of Benjamin Franklin and his son, William, royal governor of New Jersey, reveals America's internal struggle over the question of loyalty to England. A collection of letters accompanies Sheila Skemp's narrative of the two men, bonded by blood, divided by political cause.

Author Biography

Sheila L. Skemp is associate professor of history at the University of Mississippi. She is the author of William Franklin: Son of a Patriot, Servant of a King (1990), and has served as an editor of two volumes dealing with issues of race and gender in the South. She is currently working on a biography of Judith Sargent Murray. Skemp was the recipient of the University of Mississippi's award for Outstanding Teacher in the Liberal Arts.

Table of Contents

Foreword v
Preface vii
PART ONE Benjamin and William Franklin 1(152)
Introduction: Divided Loyalties
3(4)
Self-Made Men
7(21)
Forging a Partnership
28(11)
Government Men
39(17)
Men in the Middle
56(14)
The Making of a Patriot
70(18)
The Making of a Loyalist
88(16)
Toward Independence
104(22)
``When in the Course of Human Events''
126(27)
Epilogue
148(5)
PART TWO The Documents 153(42)
Letter to Benjamin Franklin, September 7, 1765
155(2)
William Franklin
Letter to William Franklin, November 9, 1765
157(3)
Benjamin Franklin
``Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania to the Inhabitants of the British Colonies,'' 1767, 1768
160(4)
John Dickinson
Letter to Lord Hillsborough, November 23, 1768
164(5)
William Franklin
``Causes of the American Discontents before 1768,'' January 1768
169(6)
Benjamin Franklin
Speech to the New Jersey Assembly, January 13, 1775
175(3)
William Franklin
Letter to Lord Dartmouth, May 6, 1775
178(5)
William Franklin
Letter to William Franklin, August 16, 1784
183(12)
Benjamin Franklin
APPENDICES
A Franklin Chronology (1706-1814)
185(6)
Selected Bibliography
191(4)
Index 195

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