Benjamin Franklin openly advocated excluding Blacks from colonial America for racial purity.

Evidence

Franklin, “Observations concerning the increase of Mankind, Peopling of Countries, &c,” in The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, Leonard W. Labaree (ed.), Yale University Press, New Haven, 1961, p. 228. Franklin concluded this essay with: “And while we are, as I may call it, Scouring our Planet, by clearing America of Woods, and so making this Side of our Globe reflect a brighter Light to the Eyes of Inhabitants in Mars or Venus, why should we in the Sight of Superior Beings, darken its People? why increase the Sons of Africa, by Planting them in America, where we have so fair an Opportunity, by excluding all Blacks and Tawneys, of increasing the lovely White and Red? But perhaps I am partial to the Complexion of my Country, for such Kind of Partiality is natural to Mankind.” — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1717

Categorization

• SHARE: Franklin, of all the Founders, writing an openly white-supremacist demographic tract in 1751 is a striking primary-source nugget for anyone studying race and the American founding.
• XREF: Shows racial exclusion as planned demographic engineering in the pre-revolutionary era, relevant to the reader’s arc of colonial origins feeding the Black radical tradition’s development.