Benjamin Franklin: "Exporting of Felons to the Colonies" - Milestone Documents

Benjamin Franklin: “Exporting of Felons to the Colonies”

( 1751 ) Commentary by Kirk H. Beetz, UC Davis, Emeritus
  • “What is a little Housebreaking, Shoplifting, or Highway Robbing; what is a Son now and then corrupted and hang'd, a Daughter debauch'd and pox'd, a Wife stabbed, a Husband's Throat cut, or a Child's Brains beat out with an Axe, compared with this ‘IMPROVEMENT and WELL PEOPLING of the Colonies!'” - “Exporting of Felons to the Colonies”
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