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Franklin suggested that Philadelphia should have a fire-fighting clubs modeled after the ones in Boston.

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Almost all of the founding fathers owned salves including Ben Franklin who owned two slaves, George and King.

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Both slaves worked as personal servants, as for Ben Franklin's paper commonly ran notices involving sales and purchase contracts of slaves.

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The Insurance Ben-efactor is basically like modern day insurance. Benjamin Franklin came up with the idea for people to give equal payments to become insurance if ever their property caught fire.

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Ben Franklin was a gregarious (sociable) person, who loved sitting down and having long conversations with friends and acquaintances.

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He organized the Union Fire Company in 1736.

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Franklin proposed that the group be compromised of "ingenious men"--a physician, mathematician, a geographer, a natural philosopher, a botanist, a chemist, and a "mechanician" (engineer)--who lived throughout the colonies.

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The American Philosophical Society was a outgrowth of the Junto.

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The American Philosophical Society stills exists 200 years later.

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During the first year of operations 143 policies were written. No insured properties caught fire in the first year of operations.

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Members have to provide at least two buckets for carrying water and several cloth bags for carrying items rescued from the fire.

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Like most people Ben also thought that African slaves and their offspring were inferior to white Europeans and that they couldn't be educated

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Members of the fire company pledged to help one another if fire broke out or if it threatened one of their homes or businesses.

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Ben Franklin proposedinsurance for widows, orphans, and crops.

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Some think that Ben Franklin's beliefs in abolitionist was too hastily influenced by the British.

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Franklin organized a group of friends to provide a structured forum for discussion. The group was called Junto.

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Ben wrote a letter to his friend telling that he concieved a higher opinion of the capacities of the black race and that their docility in every respect equal to that of the white children

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Ben Franklin soon joined as the President of an abolitionist group founded a decade earlier by the Pennsylvania Quakers.

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Franklin helped found a lot of organizations and institutions-fire fighting clubs, libraries, and insurance companies.

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Ben Franklin realized that freed slaves couldn't fend for themselves without help. So he became part of a movement to help educate freed slaves in a public announcement.....
"Address to the Public"

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The evening meetings were organized around a series of questions that Ben devised which covered a range of intellectual, personal, business, and community topics.

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Benjamin Franklin met with some fire-fighting companies in 1751 to discuss the formations of a fire insurance company. The final decision was made to make the company in May 1752.

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Of all of our founding fathers, Benjamin Franklin signed all three of the major documents that freed the colonies from British rule and established the United States as an independent nation.

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Ben Franklin was appointed in 1776 by the continental congress to a committee charged with drafting a formal document to justify the colonies.

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Franklin did review Jefferson's draft but only made a few slight changes. However, when the draft was sent to Congress many sentences where either deleted or changed to Jefferson's dismay.

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After several drafts, Congress finally decided to approve the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. Although the actual document wasn't signed until August, when Benjamin Franklin signed his name along with the fifty-five other representatives of the thirteen colonies.

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In 1781, Benjamin Franklin was in France. He had been in Paris since 1776 as Minister to France.

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The constitution was completed in September of 1787. Franklin wrote an impassioned speech, in which he used his persuasive powers to urge all delegates to sign the Constitution.

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Members of the fire company pledged to help one another should fire break out or threaten one of their homes or businesses.

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Members were not required to help protect properties of non-members,

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The original twenty-five members of the group met once a month to discuss fire-fighting techniques, to establish company policies, and, of course , to socialize.