Benjamin Franklin

The Making of a Revolutionary

Directed by Ellen Hovde, Muffie Meyer
TV-PG
S1 • E2    Nov 19, 2002
Part 2 covers Franklin's years in England, beginning in 1757, when he was sent to London as an emissary for Pennsylvania on a mission to allow the colony to tax the Penn family's lands. Franklin arrived as an ardent admirer of the empire as well as a lover of the American colonies.

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