Levelers and Fugitives: Runaway Advertisements and the Contracting Political Economies of Mid-Eighteenth-Century Massachusetts and Pennsylvania
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In the early nineteenth century colonial Pennsylvania and Massachusetts had sharply different political economies and labor systems that were only partly blended with violence. These two political economies are reflected in various stories about Benjamin Franklin, who encountered a markedly different labor system when he moved from Boston to Pennsylvania.
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