Benjamin Franklin, right before he passed away, wrote his last satire on the slave trade in the Federal Gazette and is specifically answering Congressman Jackson's pro slavery arguments. Mr. Franklin talks to his readers about what life is like as a slave and to put themselves in their shoes. He even talks from their perspective by saying if slavery were to be abolished who would compensate slave owners for their slaves after all they paid a lot of money for their slaves so they should be offered something in return. Here we are as the country saying that we are for slavery when pirates are capturing Christians and selling them into slavery. The U.S. didn't have the navy for traveling across deep waters to escort and fend off pirates and so
