▲ 899 ▼ Probably accurate (hexbear.net) submitted 1 month ago by Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world 91 comments fedilink hide all child comments cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/8955441 He was a coomer, Ben Franklin?
[–] DmMacniel@feddit.org 18 points 1 month ago (1 child) Sure the would be mortified. Woman that can vote and have rights? The ban of slavery caught up to them in the end? An orange president? permalink fedilink source hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 8 points 1 month ago The ban of slavery caught up to them in the end? Though Ben Franklin owned a few slaves when he was young, he later gave them up and became an outspoken abolitionist. I don't think he'd be too mortified to find out slavery had been ended. He might be mortified to find out that prisoners can still be enslaved, and that the US has a more people incarcerated than any other nation in history. Both by percentage of population and by absolute number. "Land of the free", am I right? permalink fedilink source parent
[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 8 points 1 month ago The ban of slavery caught up to them in the end? Though Ben Franklin owned a few slaves when he was young, he later gave them up and became an outspoken abolitionist. I don't think he'd be too mortified to find out slavery had been ended. He might be mortified to find out that prisoners can still be enslaved, and that the US has a more people incarcerated than any other nation in history. Both by percentage of population and by absolute number. "Land of the free", am I right? permalink fedilink source parent
