[DOC] [TLE] Benjamin Franklin Petitions Congress | National Archives [PAR] Jan 17, 2006 ... In his later years he became vocal as an abolitionist and in 1787 began to serve 
as ... the abolition of slavery and his last public act was to send to Congress a 
petition on behalf of ... The petition, signed on February 3, 1790, asked the first 
Congress, then meeting in ... 1-86-NARA-NARA or 1-866-272-6272. [DOC] [TLE] About The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin - CliffsNotes [PAR] Introduction Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790, printer, scientist, statesman, wrote ... 
His friends had urged him to complete his story in order to direct young ... April 17
, 1790, at the age of 84, he wrote his last seven and one-half pages, ..... His last 
public act was to sign a congressional petition advocating the abolition of slavery. [DOC] [TLE] Founding Brothers - HistoryWiz Books [PAR] During the 1790s, which Ellis calls the most decisive decade in our nation's ... 
Burr, crafty, smooth, and one of the most despised public figures of his time; ... For 
example, Ben Franklin's last public act, signing a ban-the-slave-trade petition to 
the First Congress in 1790, provoked a floor argument so fierce about abolition it
... [DOC] [TLE] The Silence - Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation [PAR] On February 11, 1790, two Quaker delegations, one from New York and the other 
from ... It urged the Congress to take such measures in their wisdom, as the 
powers with ... Franklin's endorsement of the petition from the Pennsylvania 
Abolition ..... One of the last and most consequential acts of the Congress was to 
pass the... [DOC] [TLE] Founders and Slavery - EarsToHear.net [PAR] Franklin's last public act was to petition Congress on February 3, 1790, ... when 
he was governor of New York in 1798, signed into law the state statute ending 
slavery ... Critics of the Founders often claim that, since the Constitution did not 
abolish ... Thomas Jefferson urged Congress to act before January 1, 1808 to 
ban the... [DOC] [TLE] Benjamin Franklin - NNDB.com [PAR] Sir William Keith (1680-1749), governor of the province, urged him to start in ... 
had instructed their governors to approve no act for levying the necessary taxes, 
.... In 1773 there appeared in the Public Advertiser one of Franklin's cleverest .... 
signed a petition to Congress (12th February 1790) for immediate abolition of... [DOC] [TLE] Thomas Jefferson and slavery - Wikipedia [PAR] Throughout his life, the third President of the United States, Thomas Jefferson, 
owned hundreds ... By 1776, Jefferson was one of the largest planters in Virginia. 
... to criminalize the international slave trade that passed Congress and he 
signed on .... Congress, Thomas Jefferson wrote an amendment or bill that would 
abolish... [DOC] [TLE] Benjamin Franklin Papers - Record of Birth - 1:3a [PAR] He devoted the rest of his long life to public service, but the most important ... from 
1706 to 1790 in three different places: America, England, and France. ..... In the 
last year of his life he signed a petition to the new United States Congress for the 
.... but when one of his friends, Richard Jackson, urged him to stay and to stand... [DOC] [TLE] Benjamin Franklin, Yale 1753 Hon. M.A. | Office of Public Affairs ... [PAR] Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) was a statesman, scientist, philosopher, and 
writer. ... Born in Boston, he was the son of a candle and soap maker, one of 
eleven ... cartoons and wrote dozens of essays against the hated Stamp Act. 
Franklin's .... In the last year of his life, Franklin delivered a petition to Congress 
urging it to... [DOC] [TLE] Benjamin Franklin Was America's Founding Polymath | Stock News ... [PAR] Mar 18, 2016 ... Benjamin Franklin, who more than a decade earlier had signed the Declaration 
of ... Yet he now strongly urged his fellow delegates to support the .... fixed to the 
top of my chimney and extending about 9 feet above it

Question: One of my last public acts was signing a 1790 petition to Congress urging the abolition of this
Answer: Slavery