The authorities in power in England during Thomas Paine's lifetime saw him as an agent provocateur who used his seditious eloquence to support the emancipation of slaves and women, the demands of working people, and the rebels of the French ...
The Writings of Thomas Paine - The Rights of ManBy Thomas Paine - THE CLASSIC - COMPLETE EDITION - Thomas Paine (February 9, 1737 - June 8, 1809) was an English-American political activist, philosopher, political theorist and revolutionary.