Clarke Peters
speaker
443 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 11 Jun
Clarke Peters’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Appearances
Ships crowd the harbor, and places of worship crowd everywhere else.
The Franklins are not cash-rich.
Benjamin's schooling ends at the age of 10.
An apprenticeship in publishing follows.
At 17, Benjamin leaves Boston in search of new opportunities.
He arrives in Philadelphia, in the Pennsylvania colony.
The boy is about to come of age in more ways than one.
Peter Castor is professor of history at Washington University in St.
Louis.
In lightning quick time, Franklin earns a fortune from publishing.
At the center of his empire is the Pennsylvania Gazette, which becomes one of the most prominent newspapers in colonial America.
So when a charismatic visitor from England swoops into town, Franklin immediately spots an opportunity.
It's November 1739, late in the afternoon.
In the center of Philadelphia, Market Street is heaving.
Horse-drawn carts and wagons line the road.
Pedestrians amble alongside, mothers carrying children on their hips, groups of sauntering teenage boys, the elderly moving slowly but purposefully.
Among them is 33-year-old Benjamin Franklin.
Franklin moves in and out of the jumble of bodies.
He cranes his neck this way and that.
A quick top of head calculation tells him there must be 6,000 people here.
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