thunder24
5th April 2011, 19:59
There is a theory or some would say proven fact that Benjamin Banneker was actually Benjamin Franklin. Anyone out there in Avalon have information to share.
I don't like Wikipedia, but heres nothing
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Banneker
Banneker was so eloquent that we should read his actual words to Jefferson:
“Sir, how pitiable is it to reflect, that although you were so fully convinced of the benevolence of the Father of Mankind, and of his equal and impartial distribution of these rights and privileges, which he hath conferred upon them, that you should at the same time counteract his mercies, in detaining by fraud and violence so numerous a part of my brethren, under groaning captivity and cruel oppression, that you should at the same time be found guilty of that most criminal act, which you professedly detested in others, with respect to yourselves.”
I don't like Wikipedia, but heres nothing
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Banneker
Banneker was so eloquent that we should read his actual words to Jefferson:
“Sir, how pitiable is it to reflect, that although you were so fully convinced of the benevolence of the Father of Mankind, and of his equal and impartial distribution of these rights and privileges, which he hath conferred upon them, that you should at the same time counteract his mercies, in detaining by fraud and violence so numerous a part of my brethren, under groaning captivity and cruel oppression, that you should at the same time be found guilty of that most criminal act, which you professedly detested in others, with respect to yourselves.”