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Thomas Paine: African Slavery In America

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In 1774 Thomas Paine arrived in Philadelphia leaving England behind him. There he worked as an editor of the Pennsylvania Magazine. Paine traveled with the Continental Army not as a member but as a journalist. Now before he had moved to America Paine had written several other pieces of literature so he was no rookie at being a writer. In fact one of his first pieces was a pamphlet titled The Case of the Officers. This particular piece was a great demand for higher pay for excise officers in England. Another writing he had done was an article titled African Slavery in America. This article was written to condemn the African slave trade. Some might often say that Paine was an “activist, philosopher, political theorist and revolutionary”.(Philip,M.)
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