text: A historian of this surname chaired the board of President Bill Clinton's Initiative on Race after spending decades updating his pioneering black history survey, titled From Slavery to Freedom.
full_question: A historian of this surname chaired the board of President Bill Clinton's Initiative on Race after spending decades updating his pioneering black history survey, titled From Slavery to Freedom. Another author of this surname adapted a fictional speech by Father Abraham into his The Way to Wealth several years after founding the Leather Apron club, also called the Junto. That man of this surname, who wrote public letters under the persona of the middle-aged woman Silence Dogood, secured a 1777 allegiance with France after news of the victory at Saratoga came to him. For 10 points, give this surname of black historian John Hope as well as the author of the Albany Plan of Union and Poor Richard's Almanack, a Pennsylvanian Founding Father who studied electric charge.
first_sentence: A historian of this surname chaired the board of President Bill Clinton's Initiative on Race after spending decades updating his pioneering black history survey, titled From Slavery to Freedom.
raw_answer: Franklin [or John Hope Franklin; or Benjamin Franklin]