Ben Franklin's World is a production of the

O'Mohandro Institute and the sponsor for this episode is the Georgian Papers

Program.

Welcome to Ben Franklin's World, podcast about Early American History with Liz Kovart.

The study of history is key to understanding who we are and how we can affect the better future.

Van Franklin's world will introduce you to historical people and events that have impacted and shaped our present day world.

And now, here's your host, Liz Colarn.

Hello and welcome to episode 175 of Ben Franklin's world,

the podcast dedicated to helping you,

learn more about how the people and events of our early American past

have shaped the present day world we live in.

You know, not so long ago, we spent a lot of time on this show exploring the American

Revolution.

In our doing history to the Revolution series, we asked a lot of questions about the

American Revolution, such as, questions about the American Revolution, such as what was the

American Revolution, what caused the American Revolution, who was the Revolution for, and

how do we remember the revolution?

But one question we didn't explore in any detail was what could the American Revolution

mean for individual people and families?

Today we're going to take care of that because we're going to explore what the

revolution meant for one specific family. We're going to explore how Benjamin

Franklin and his family experienced the American Revolution and how the

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