Runaway America: Benjamin Franklin

David Waldstreicher talks about his book Runaway America: Benjamin Franklin, Slavery, and the American Revolution, published by Hill and Wang. In the book he re-examined Benjamin Franklin, slavery and the American Revolution. In his speech, he argues that Benjamin Franklin was not the hero of abolitionism that many people remember.

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