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Benjamin Franklin and the Leather-Apron Men: The Politics of Class in Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia

Content Provider	Scilit
Author	Newman, Simon P.
Copyright Year	2009
Description	Benjamin Franklin's autobiography reveals his deep investment in shaping and controlling how both his contemporaries and posterity assessed his life and achievements. This essay explores Franklin's construction and presentation of his pride in his working-class origins and identity, analysing how and why Franklin sought not to hide his poor origins but rather to celebrate them as a virtue. As an extremely successful printer, Franklin had risen from working-class obscurity to the highest ranks of Philadelphia society, yet unlike other self-made men of the era Franklin embraced and celebrated his artisanal roots, and he made deliberate use of his working-class identity during the Seven Years War and the subsequent imperial crisis, thereby consolidating his own reputation and firming up the support of urban workers who considered him one of their own.
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Ending Page	175
Page Count	15
Starting Page	161
ISSN	00218758
e-ISSN	14695154
DOI	10.1017/s0021875809990089
Journal	Journal of American Studies
Issue Number	2
Volume Number	43
Language	English
Publisher	Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Publisher Date	2009-08-01
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Journal of American Studies Benjamin Franklin
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Arts and Humanities Social Sciences

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