Ken Burns’ New Documentary Shows Benjamin Franklin in All His Contradictions

3:19pm PDT - April 4th, 2022    nancy pelosi - Time

“Posterity will never forgive us,” lamented John Adams in the musical 1776 after the Second Continental Congress compromised to omit an anti-slavery passage from the Declaration of Independence. “What would posterity think we were? Demi-gods?” responded Benja…