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originally posted by: the2ofusr1
who discovered electricity
The first modern Scientist. Benjamin Franklin.
originally posted by: alldaylong
a reply to: mikegrouchy
who discovered electricity
No he didn't.
Electricity was discovered by Englishman William Gilbert in 1600.
In fact the word " Electricity " was coined by Gilbert.
www.britannica.com...
The first modern Scientist. Benjamin Franklin.
No he wasn't.
That title would go to either Galileo or Robert Boyle.
Serious question. Who teaches you Americans this nonsense ?
originally posted by: crayzeed
a reply to: alldaylong
Ah, just like the other supposed great American inventor Thomas Edison. He is credited with loads of inventions. Notice I said credited there because he had a large team of real inventors working for him which he paid and then claimed patents on them. Therefore setting in concrete every American believing him to be the great inventor.
originally posted by: crayzeed
PS. what the heck has the title " age of slave rebellions what would you do" got to do with the thread when all it's about is a Benjamin Franklin circle jerk?
Slavery had been practiced in British North America from early colonial days, and was legal in all Thirteen Colonies at the time of the Declaration of Independence in 1776.
During and immediately following the Revolutionary War, abolitionist laws were passed in most Northern states and a movement developed to abolish slavery.
wiki / Slavery in The United State
originally posted by: crayzeed
PS. what the heck has the title " age of slave rebellions what would you do" got to do with the thread when all it's about is a Benjamin Franklin circle jerk?
originally posted by: bigfatfurrytexan
I think Ben Franklin may have been the only person on the planet that was, at the time, smarter than Jefferson. Although they were years apart in age.
Franklin was a profound man. One of those kind of guys you see maybe once every 500 years. Maybe 1000 years. A deep thinker whose thoughts are so profound and truthful they change the way those who interact with them think. This was absolutely Franklin.
I'd rank him in my top 10 "who i'd most like to meet".
Decades later Jefferson blamed the removal of the passage on delegates from South Carolina and Georgia and Northern delegates who represented merchants who were at the time actively involved in the Trans-Atlantic slave trade. Jefferson's original passage on slavery appears below.
He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating & carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither. This piratical warfare, the opprobrium of infidel powers, is the warfare of the Christian King of Great Britain. Determined to keep open a market where Men should be bought & sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or restrain this execrable commerce. And that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished die, he is now exciting those very people to rise in arms among us, and to purchase that liberty of which he has deprived them, by murdering the people on whom he has obtruded them: thus paying off former crimes committed again the Liberties of one people, with crimes which he urges them to commit against the lives of another.
The Deleted Passage of the Declaration of Independance
inciting slaves to rebel
originally posted by: crayzeed
a reply to: alldaylong
Ah, just like the other supposed great American inventor Thomas Edison. He is credited with loads of inventions. Notice I said credited there because he had a large team of real inventors working for him which he paid and then claimed patents on them. Therefore setting in concrete every American believing him to be the great inventor.
originally posted by: cenpuppie
a reply to: mikegrouchy
The British also counterfeited greenbacks during that time too.