Common Sense

Thomas Paine arrived in America from England in 1774. A friend of Benjamin Franklin, he was a writer of poetry and tracts condemning the slave trade. In 1775, as hostilities between Britain and the colonies intensified, Paine wrote Common Sense to encourage the colonies to break the British exploitative hold and fight for independence. The little booklet of 50 pages was published January 10, 1776 and sold a half-million copies, approximately equal to 75 million copies today.

Author: Thomas Paine
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Applewood Books
Published: 07/01/2002
Series: Books of American Wisdom
Pages: 76
Weight: 0.26lbs
Size: 6.80h x 4.14w x 0.45d
ISBN: 9781557094582