The Question and Answer section for Founding Brothers is a great resource to ask questions, find answers, and discuss the novel.
Slavery was a highly contentious issue. Benjamin Franklin, a man with a lot of weight behind him, wanted slavery abolished. Congress just wanted to issue to go away. The slavery debate eventually moved from Congress and into the churches and...
Adams was one of the foremost figures of the Revolution and leading figure in America's independence. He is one of the reasons that America is not connected to England.
Franklin was in opposition to slavery. In this book, he features mostly through his insistence that the House of Representatives consider and debate the slavery question. Thankfully slavery was abolished in the United States.
