Reading Franklins petition to congress reminds me of the experiment he conducted on himself. He tried to do the right thing all the time and he knew that slavery was just morally wrong. In the petition, Franklin mentions that all men in the country should be able to be free in order to be happy. It is wrong for men to be sold and bought in a country which is supposed to be founded on equal liberty and justice. This petition leaves a mark on early America and the struggle to address the problem of slavery.