BFW Revisited: American Expansion & the Political Economy of Plunder

Ben Franklin's World by Liz Covart

Aug 11, 202601:18:14Society & Culture

The Declaration of Independence proclaimed that all men are endowed with the unalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. But what did liberty and equality mean for the peoples the Declaration never...

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