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Benjamin and William Franklin

First  Edition©1994 Sheila L. Skemp

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The American Revolution was a civil war as well as a war for independence. The experience of Benjamin Franklin and his son, William, royal governor of New Jersey, reveals America's internal struggle over the question of loyalty to England. A collection of letters accompanies Sheila Skemp's narrative of the two men, bonded by blood, divided by political cause.

Table of Contents

  Foreword
  Preface
    
PART I. BENJAMIN AND WILLIAM FRANKLIN
    
  Introduction: Divided Loyalties
    1. Self-Made Men
    2. Forging a Partnership
    3. Government Men
    4. Men in the Middle
    5. The Making of a Patriot
    6. The Making of a Loyalist
    7. Toward Independence
    8. "When in the Course of Human Events"
    
  Epilogue
    
PART II. THE DOCUMENTS
    
    1. William Franklin, Letter to Benjamin Franklin, September 7, 1765
    2. Benjamin Franklin, Letter to William Franklin, September 9, 1765
    3. John Dickinson, From "Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania to the Inhabitants of the British Colonies," 1767, 1768
    4. William Franklin, Letter to Lord Hillsborough, November 23, 1768
    5. Benjamin Franklin, "Causes of the American Discontents before 1768," January 1768
    6. William Franklin, Speech to the New Jersey Assembly, January 13, 1775
    7. William Franklin, Letter to Lord Dartmouth, May 6, 1775
    8. Benjamin Franklin, Letter to William Franklin, August 16, 1784
    
APPENDICES
    
    A Franklin Chronology (1706–1814)
    Selected Bibliography
    
  Index

Sheila L. Skemp

Sheila L. Skemp is the Clare Leslie Marquette Chair in American history at the University of Mississippi.  She is the author of William Franklin: Son of a Patriot, Servant of a King (1990) and First Lady of Letters: Judith Sargent Murray and the Struggle for the Rights of Women (2009).  Skemp is the recipient of numerous teaching awards, and in 2009 she received the campus-wide Faculty Award for Outstanding Teaching and Scholarship.