In the book he describes having a child out of wedlock and several affairs with young women, which violated the Act’s prohibiting the transport of “indecent” material across State lines. The Autobiography was even censored by Franklin’s own grandson, who changed some of its racy material- such as the story of Franklin’s sexual advance towards James Ralph’s girlfriend in London- in favor of the more prim and proper ideals of the 19 th Century.įranklin was “the father of the Post Office,” and even served as the first Postmaster General in 1753, but in an ironic twist of fate Franklin’s works, if sent through the United States Postal Service, made the sender liable to prosecution under the Comstock Act of 1873.
Well wouldn’t you know it? Yet another of America’s legendary Founding Fathers has had their written work banned by the same citizenry that purports to idolize them.īenjamin Franklin’s life story was first published in France under the title “ Mémoires de la vie privée de Benjamin Franklin”( The Private Life of the late Benjamin Franklin) in 1791, and it quickly became the target of censors from that first printing up to the present day.
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