Today I learned on Nostr: TIL Benjamin Franklin considered all Europeans “Swarthy” and he considered only ...

TIL Benjamin Franklin considered all Europeans “Swarthy” and he considered only the Saxons as purely white, wishing “their numbers were increased”

https://www.columbia.edu/~lmg21/ash3002y/earlyac99/documents/observations.html
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