Conflict with the Penn Proprietors and Mission to England

From The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin
Franklin's account of his service in the Pennsylvania Assembly and his mission to London as agent, opposing the proprietors' refusal to be taxed—prefiguring his later revolutionary diplomacy.
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Sets the stage for his later imperial and revolutionary career.

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