Benjamin Franklin Quotes About Slaves

• The borrower is a slave to the lender and the debtor to the creditor.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Business, Debtors, Slave

  Benjamin Franklin, Ormond Seavey (1998). “Autobiography and Other Writings”, p.272, Oxford University Press, USA

• Speak with contempt of none, from slave to king, The meanest Bee hath, and will use, a sting.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Kings, Use, Bees

  Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanac and Other Writings”, p.92, Courier Corporation

• Remember, Sir, that [England] began the slave trade!

  Benjamin Franklin

  Revolution, England, Remember

• A [desire] to abolish slavery prevails in North America, many of the Pennsylvanians have set their slaves at liberty, and [Virginia legislators] have petitioned the King for permission to make a law for preventing the importation of more [slaves] into that colony. This request, however, will probably not be granted, as their former laws of that kind have always been repealed.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Kings, Virginia, Law

• When you are in debt, then you are a slave.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Debt, Slave

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