I'm Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution Center.

A few years ago, learning about the forgotten meaning of the pursuit of happiness changed my life.

When the founders wrote that famous phrase in the Declaration of Independence,

they meant an ongoing commitment to self-improvement and lifelong learning.

This discovery inspired me to write a book, and in my

new podcast, I explore the founder's lives with the historians who know them best. Plus, filmmaker

Ken Byrne shares his daily practice of self-reflection. Join me for Pursuit, the Founders' Guide

to Happiness. Hello, this is Matt from the Explorers podcast.

I want to invite you to join me on the voyages and journeys of the most famous explorers

in the history of the world.

These are the thrilling and captivating stories of Vigelin, Shackleton, Lewis, and Clark,

and so many other

famous and not-so-famous adventures from throughout history. Go to Exploryspodcast.com or just look us up on

your podcast app. That's the Explorers Podcast. You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast.

Music listening to an Airwave Media Podcast. Hello and welcome to Ben Franklin's World Revisited, a series of classic episodes that bring

fresh perspective to our latest episodes and had deeper connections to our understanding

of early American history. And I'm your host, Liz Covart. When we think about slavery in

early America, we often rightfully focus on the human toll, the violence, the exploitation,

and the dehumanization that defined the institution. But slavery wasn't just a system of forced labor.

It was also a business.

Next week in episode 418, we'll be investigating a different facet of the business of slavery.

The story is slave drivers, and slave people who were either forced to or took up positions

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