1813-1815 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN - SLAVERY. 39 Issues of the Aurora-Tri-Weekly Paper. Rare!

An Exceptional Assemblage of 39 Weekly Non-Bound Issues of the Aurora Tri-Weekly [Sort-Of] Published in Philadelphia by Benjamin Franklin’s Grandson and on Franklin’s Printing Equipment. This exceptional assemblage was purchased from the estate collection of William Guthman. He is perhaps best remembered as an early American expert for the original Antiques Road Show, but he was also a historian of the same and owner of one of the finest collections of Americana print and manuscript material gathered in the modern era. The paper itself was significant and for many years a significant voice of the Republican [sometimes Radical Republican] party in the country. It began when Franklin’s grandson, Benjamin Franklin Bache, inherited Franklin’s printing presses. Already with a strong authorial and editorial voice, he immediately took to publishing. The Aurora was noted for regularly publishing involving the slave trade, fugitive slaves, anti-federalist policies and politicians, and promoting