![]() That goal, he maintained, could only be achieved through unified action. Paine relentlessly insisted that British rule was responsible for nearly every problem in colonial society and that the 1770s crisis could only be resolved by colonial independence. Never before had a pamphlet been written in an inspiring style so accessible to the “common” folk of America.Ĭommon Sense made a clear case for independence and directly attacked the political, economic, and ideological obstacles to achieving it. Never before had a personally written work appealed to all classes of colonists. ![]() One hundred twenty thousand copies sold in the first three months in a nation of three million people, making Common Sense the best-selling printed work by a single author in American history up to that time. ![]() On January 10, 1776, an obscure immigrant published a small pamphlet that ignited independence in America and shifted the political landscape of the patriot movement from reform within the British imperial system to independence from it. Common Sense: Reasoning for Colonial Rebellion ![]()
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