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and came for a particular type of freedom and had to work together for a first ethically diverse society, ethnic and religious and background diversity truly leads to creativity. it was that sort of bubbling mix there that allows philadelphia to become a place of great commerce, but also, a place of great middle class entreprene entrepreneursh entrepreneurship. start-up and innovation. benjamin franklin eventually decides after being an apprentice to a printer there to start his own print shop. and goes over to england, buys the type and the found rips and stuff. back then, philadelphia had i think 11 newspapers and he starts the 12th. it was really great in the days in which it was great competing voices and there were newspapers for the and he kans and for penn family and the propry tories and people loyal to the crown and ben franklin starts the first really independent newspaper, not affiliated with any faction but really being willing to poke fun at all factions and to s
New-yorkUnited-statesConstantinopleIstanbulTurkeyAlabamaHoover-damParisFrance-generalFranceTexasPhiladelphia makes him stop. and to cut the story a little bit, benjamin franklin actually runs away. he breaks his apprenticeship he had signed to be an apprentice with his brother for seven years and runs away to philadelphia. now, this is an important thing, because boston was very theocratic, one with very little separation from the puritan churches and the government. but philadelphia was a place where there was a great diversity of people. there were moravians and anglicans and episcopals and screws and slaves an freed slaves, and they all worked together in a place called market street. they all came to shop. and it was the first place of brotherly love, where you saw a diversity of people trying, people who are all immigrants, including the anglicans and episcopalia episcopalians, but all of them had come for a particular type of freedom, and they had to work together in what was the first ethnically diverse society. an ethnic and religious and background diversity truly leads to
New-yorkUnited-statesConstantinopleIstanbulTurkeyAlabamaHoover-damParisFrance-generalFranceTexasPhiladelphia his brother, who i mentioned was an older brother, and being an older brother, would not let franklin write for the newspaper. so franklin ends up writing under a pseudonym, silence dogood. he puts a pen name on it and slips the essays he does under the door of his brother s print shop. and the brother and his friends. running the print shop, have no idea where they re coming from. and franklin has put on the persona of a widowed, elderly woman living in the countryside of massachusetts and writing these essays. the triumph of the imagination, a kid who was then 15 years old and never left boston, but writing in this voice. and it s a distinctly american voice. she begins and introduces herself in the first of the silence dogood columns in the new england current by saying let me introduce myself. i m a woman of strong national sentiments. i really reject the notion of privilege, and i have a protective feel about all my rights. that s how you know i m an american. and
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