Egmond Codfried
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 Posted: Wed 19 Aug 2009 10:49 Post subject: BENJAMIN FRANKLIN ON ‘SWARTHY COMPLEXIONS’!?! |
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[John Hanson, occasionally called the First President of the United States, was the President of the Continental Congress in 1781–1782.]
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN ON ‘SWARTHY COMPLEXIONS’!?!
According to my research laid down in my Blue Blood is Black Blood theory (1500-1789) the descendents of the Africans who started inhabiting Europe 40.000 years ago, the Grimaldi Human, might have survived way into the 19th century. Due to geographical isolation or conscious intermarriage, to remain black. This could explain why dear Benjamin Franklin spoke of ‘swarthy’ Swedes and Germans’ arriving in America. Perhaps is this another lead that the Swedish John Hanson was black, but from European descent and not mixed with enslaved Africans.
| Quote: | Benjamin Franklin:
Observations Concerning the Increase of Mankind, Peopling of Countries, &c.(1751)
24. Which leads me to add one Remark: That the Number of purely white People in the World is proportionably very small. All Africa is black or tawny. Asia chiefly tawny. America (exclusive of the new Comers) wholly so. And in Europe, the Spaniards, Italians, French, Russians and Swedes, are generally of what we call a swarthy Complexion; as are the Germans also, the Saxons only excepted, who with the English, make the principal Body of White People on the Face of the Earth. I could wish their Numbers were increased. And while we are, as I may call it, Scouring our Planet, by clearing America of Woods, and so making this Side of our Globe reflect a brighter Light to the Eyes of Inhabitants in Mars or Venus, why should we in the Sight of Superior Beings, darken its People? why increase the Sons of Africa, by Planting them in America, where we have so fair an Opportunity, by excluding all Blacks and Tawneys, of increasing the lovely White and Red? But perhaps I am partial to the Complexion of my Country, for such Kind of Partiality is natural to Mankind. |
Sources:
http://www.dialoginternational.com/dialog_international/2008/02/ben-franklin-on.html
http://www.historycarper.com/resources/twobf2/increase.htm
Race and the rise of standard American Door Thomas Paul Bonfiglio
And the plot thickens:
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The Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage was the first American abolition society. It was initially formed April 14, 1775, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and held four meetings.[1] It was reorganized in 1784.[2] as the Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery and for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage[3], and was incorporated in 1789.
At some point after 1785, Benjamin Franklin became the organization's president. The society asked him to bring the matter of slavery to the Constitutional Convention of 1787. He did so in 1790.[4]
A historical marker is erected at the site of the Society's 1984 re-founding at Front Street below Chestnut, in Philadelphia.[citation needed]
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| Quote: | Philadelphia, 26 October, 1789.
A Plan for Improving the Condition of the Free Blacks
by Benjamin Franklin
The business relative to free blacks shall be transacted by a committee of twenty-four persons, annually elected by ballot, at the meeting of this Society, in the month called April; and, in order to perform the different services with expedition, regularity, and energy, this committee shall resolve itself into the following sub-committees, viz.
I. A Committee of Inspection, who shall superintend the morals, general conduct, and ordinary situation of the free negroes, and afford them advice and instruction, protection from wrongs, and other friendly offices. |
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Society_for_the_Relief_of_Free_Negroes_Unlawfully_Held_in_Bondage
Source: http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Plan_for_Improving_the_Condition_of_the_Free_Blacks |
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