Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Thomas Paine

Rocio Ayala - Section 1B
(1737-1809)
-Lived his first 37 years in England
-Then went to American and became an advocate for its independence from England
-The British charged him with treason after publishing the second part of "Rights of Man"
-He fled to France and became a French citizen and part of the Convention
Works:
"Common Sense"
"Crisis" (16 pamphlets)
"Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr Burke's Attach on the French Revolution"
"Rights of Man" (Part II)
"The Age of Reason" (writted during the year spend in jail due to the Jacobins)

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