Information to Those Who Would Remove to America”

Just this small page revealed more to the reader than many other articles about Franklin can. A perfectionistic attitude within the usually glorified hero of America. He was very hard on himself, and clearly tried to live a frugal lifestyle. As a historic character who is often glorified, this human perspective was

John Smith, from book 3, chapter 2 of his book, The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles, wrote about his adventures in the new land of the Indians where he experienced new people, a new governance system and a new culture (Smith, The Generall Historie of Virginia, New England & the Summer Isles 43). Smith, who was an English soldier, explorer and author, ventured into a new and unfamiliar territory where he experienced many unknown and unusual conditions and his writings depict his initial experience with the natives of this new and hostile land. He referred to the indigenous people as “savages” based on their hostile nature and brutal behavior towards him and his men. Initially the native chief, Powhatan, wanted to torture and Kill Captain Smith but he

In response to the angry masses, Franklin issued an “Apology” in which was quite spirited. In the apology he lists ten points of consideration for those who were upset with him. Franklin opens the apology by stating that that everyone has different opinions, and that its unreasonable for everyone to agree with everything that is written. He expressed his belief that not all writings that are published will please the jury and that it is unrealistic to expect no writing to go unopposed for its content. Benjamin Franklin also states that “when Men differ in Opinion, both Sides ought equally to have the Advantage of being heard

Popular culture has shaped our understanding and perception of Native American culture. From Disney to literature has given the picture of the “blood thirsty savage” of the beginning colonialism in the new world to the “Noble Savage,” a trait painted by non-native the West (Landsman and Lewis 184) and this has influenced many non native perceptions. What many outsiders do not see is the struggle Native American have on day to day bases. Each generation of Native American is on a struggle to keep their traditions alive, but to function in school and ultimately graduate.

It is without doubt that there has been a prominent distinction between the Native Americans and the English settlers upon landing in Virginia in the early 1600s. With the prior ‘knowledge’ from previous pioneers in America, the colonist had viewed the Natives in a vilified manner as savages without proper means of civilization. These so called ‘heathens’ were said

"Their (Natives) present condition, contrasted with what they once were, makes a most powerful appeal to our sympathies…By persuasion and force they have been made to retire from river to river and from mountain to mountain, until some of the tribes have become extinct and others have left but remnants to preserve for a while their once terrible names. Surrounded by the whites with their arts of civilization, which by destroying the resources of the savage doom him to

Franklin, himself climbed the ranks society “having emerged from the poverty and obscurity in which [he] was born and bred to a state of affluence and some degree of reputation in the world” (Franklin 27). He had been raised by a humble middle class family, not being promised much wealth or land, forcing him to make a name for himself. Franklin, a man of the enlightenment,

During American colonial times, the native peoples of the new world clashed often with the English settlers who encroached upon their lifestyle. Many horror stories and clichés arose about the natives from the settlers. As one might read in Mary Rowlandson’s Narrative, often these disputes would turn to violence. To maintain the process of the extermination of the natives alongside Christian moral beliefs, one of the main tenets of colonial life was the belief that the natives were “savages”; that they were morally and mentally inferior to the English that settled there. As is the case with many societies, certain voices of dissent began to spin. These voices questioned the assertions

In the “Remarks Concerning the Savages of North America” Benjamin Franklin writes about the Native American people and their way of life. In Benjamin Franklin’s essay he shows that the Native American people are far from savages. He explains how they are indeed civilized people. He says “perhaps, if we examine the manners of different nations with the impartiality, we should find no people so rude, as not to have some remains of rudeness.” The reason the Native Americans were called “savages” was because their rules of common civility, religion, laws and culture were different from the American culture and being that we were just socializing we did not understand their way of life.

Over time, the Native-Americans have moved farther out to the west. Many people believe that Native-Americans should be moved away from the “civilized people”. Some have though “have retained their savage habits. A portion, however, of the Southern tribes, having mingled much with the whites and made some progress in the arts of civilized life.” This means that the Native-Americans have been able to adapt to the civilized lifestyle but others still retain their save habits.

From the speech of “Remarks Concerning the Savages of North America”, Franklin expresses his tough attitudes and foresight knowledge. In this speech, Franklin give his point about how to treat Indian and why he thought that white people are savages in North America. One example of Franklin gives in this speech. When a white person comes to Indian area, Indian give him food, drink, a pipe and soft fur to sleep on. However, when one Indian comes to white person’s area, the white person would say “get out! Your Indian dog!” unless Indian pay for something (234-247). There is a direct example to help me know the confliction in initial period between native American and outsiders from Europe. It looks the acid conflict made by the colonialism and

Europeans thought Native Americans were Savages. They were thought as uncivilized only because their lifestyle and culture was different than the white man. Benjamin Franklin tells us in a sarcastic way how white man think their manners and civility is perfect by saying; “ Savages we call them, because their manners differ from ours, which we think the perfection of civility” (p. 477). Benjamin Franklin then talks about the Native Americans culture to show us how it is not as different and not as uncivilized as Europeans thought it was. He started by telling us how the young Indian men are hunters and warriors and how the old Indian men are counselors. He also told us how they don’t have prisons and officers to compel obedience. With this he is telling us in their civilization there is no need for the use of force to make people be civilized. He also tells us how woman cook and take care of their children and how they see this as natural and honorable. With all this Benjamin Franklin is comparing cultures between the European and the Native Americans to show Europeans they are not as uncivilized as they all thought they were. Benjamin Franklin also mentions how Indians consider it offensive to interrupt someone who is speaking and compares this to the British culture. By being so polite and not interrupting the speaker Benjamin Franklin is telling us that they like to avoid conflict. At the end Benjamin Franklin compares the Hospitality between the Europeans and the Native Americans. Benjamin Franklin mentions how a traveler will be given every courtesy once the traveler has been welcomed into the Native American village. Benjamin Franklin then tells us how the Indians would treat a white man if they enter their cabins. Benjamin Franklin starts by saying, if you were wet they will dry you, if you were cold

and in reality it was a demonstration of the failure to make a dependable political

Between 1790 and 1920 it was a tough time for the Indians. During that period Native Americans were forced to convert to the European-American Culture. Their whole life changed, the way of living, religion, and especially their children’s future. It was wrong of Americans to convert natives into a different society that they saw fit and not letting them express their own culture and treating them as an unworthy society.

It was the year 1706 in Boston, MA when Benjamin Franklin entered the world. Birthed after fourteen other siblings, Franklin's family structure is only one deciding factor in the way that this legendary tale pans out. A hero of American Revolution, this novel depicts 18th century realism accurately while logging Franklin's personal conception on human nature and social community. Many look at Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography as your typical rags to riches tale yet, the truth and falsehood throughout the pages is unknown, raising many questions and concerns. As this book was written in segments over a stretched period of time, we must analyze this account of his life, the struggles and successes which took place, and the outcome of such