Forgotten Founders Quote
Contact with Indians and their ways of ordering life left a definite imprint on Franklin and others who were seeking, during the pre-Revolutionary period, alternatives to a European order against which revolution would be made. To Jefferson, as well as Franklin, the Indians had what the colonists wanted: societies free of oppression and class stratification. The Iroquois and other Indian nations fired the imaginations of the revolution’s architects.
They learned from American Indians, by assimilating into their visions of the future, aspects of American Indian wisdom and beauty.
-Forgotten Founders by Bruce E. Johansen
Contact with Indians and their ways of ordering life left a definite imprint on Franklin and others who were seeking, during the pre-Revolutionary period, alternatives to a European order against which revolution would be made. To Jefferson, as well as Franklin, the Indians had what the colonists wanted: societies free of oppression and class stratification. The Iroquois and other Indian nations fired the imaginations of the revolution’s architects.
They learned from American Indians, by assimilating into their visions of the future, aspects of American Indian wisdom and beauty.
-Forgotten Founders by Bruce E. Johansen
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