Franklin Benjamin Sanborn
Franklin Benjamin Sanborn was an American journalist, author, and reformer. Sanborn was a social scientist, and a memorialist of American transcendentalism who wrote early biographies of many of the movements key figures. He founded the American Social Science Association, in 1865, to treat wisely the great social problems of the day. He was a member of the Secret Six, or Committee of Six, which funded the militant abolitionist John Brown.
Franklin Sanborn was born at Hampton Falls, New Hampshire, the son of Aaron and Lydia Sanborn. He already believed himself capable of making a stir in the world by the age of two, having held up a stick in a thunderstorm and experienced being struck by lightening. At age nine, following careful reading of the proemancipation journals, The National Era and Horace Greeleys NewYork Tribune, Frank announced to his family that slavery was wrong and the United States Constitution should be revised or revoked.
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