Benjamin Franklin Quotes
The white traders keep these poor Indians continually under the force of liquor. They entirely estrange the affections of the Indians from the English.
At the time, the traders were mostly French who traded all kinds of goods and especially alcohol—usually rum—for fur animal pelts. Many of the Indians were partial to the French and French oriented traders who did not covet their land and would provide the Indians with alcohol and guns, lead and powder while English traders sometimes tried to restrict these items. Many tribes of American Indians are genetically very susceptible to alcohol—both in terms of immediate impairment—getting drunk and in developing a dependency on having alcohol—addiction or alcoholism.
Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790, Member of the Continental Congress & the Constitutional Convention, Governor of Pennsylvania, President of the Pennsylvania Assembly, U.S. Minister to France, Postmaster General of the American Colonies, Report of the Treaty of Carlyle, November 1, 1753
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From the earliest days of the nation, alcohol has been a competitor for the resources and time of people, especially native Americans many of whom have a genetic predisposition to the deleterious effect of alcohol.
The English had sent a cask of rum as a “token of friendship” It was returned
He was describing the way that the Colonial America, Native American communities coped with the adverse consequence of violence brought about by liquor which had been given to the Indians by white traders for the purpose of impairing the Indians’ judgment so that they would trade more easily and on better terms. Since then and into the 21st century, business people have entertained’ potential customers with alcohol for the same general purposes.
Even at this early time, it was clear that whites had brought numerous diseases that decimated the Indians. Alcohol and disease killed many more native Americans than all the wars—intertribal and with the whites—ever did. Neolin warned but did not have more than regional influence.
American Indians not only had no culture of alcohol and drinking in moderation, but most Native Americans have a genetic susceptibility to alcoholism.
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She was a baroness—a member of the aristocracy who was a social reformer
Douglass had written of how the slave owners used alcohol to maintain control over the slaves: {611086}.
Most people only know about Garrison’s abolition crusade. However he had others like temperance.
Benjamin Franklin FRS FRSA FRSE was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. A polymath, he was a leading writer, printer, political philosopher, politician, Freemason, postmaster, scientist, inventor, humorist, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat. As a scientist, he was a major figure in the American Enlightenment and the history of physics for his discoveries and theories regarding electricity. As an inventor, he is known for the lightning rod, bifocals, and the Franklin stove, among other inventions. He founded many civic organizations, including the Library Company, Philadelphia's first fire department, and the University of Pennsylvania.
