On this day 231 years ago, Philadelphia blogger Thomas Painereleased version 1.0 of his popular political pamphlet, "Common Sense." The booklet sold some 500,000 copies at a time when there were only about 5 million colonists (along with 700,000 African slaves and whatever Native Americans hadn't been killed or run off to French territory at that point).
Posted in POLITICS by T. Paine, 01/10/1776
Posted in POLITICS by T. Paine, 01/10/1776
Posted in POLITICS by T. Paine, 01/10/1776
On this day 231 years ago, Philadelphia blogger Thomas Painereleased version 1.0 of his popular political pamphlet, "Common Sense." The booklet sold some 500,000 copies at a time when there were only about 5 million colonists (along with 700,000 African slaves and whatever Native Americans hadn't been killed or run off to French territory at that point).