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This document proves that Benjamin Franklin was an activist to acquire rights for Indians and tried to convince other Europeans to consider the way of treating what they used to do to those Indians. He also mentioned to the unreasonable murders of the Indians which was done by the Europeans. Therefore, intended audience in the source was Europeans because Benjamin Franklin thought he could have told those people not to do murders in order to make the relationship between the Indians and the Europeans peaceful. That was also his purpose which is making the New World better. “The only Crime of these poor Wretches seems to have been, that they had a reddish brown Skin, and black Hair; and some People of that Sort, it seems, had murdered some of

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