On March 8, 1775—barely six weeks before the first shots of the American Revolution—a small but incendiary essay appeared in the Pennsylvania Journal and Weekly Advertiser. The piece carried no author’s name. Its title, however, left little doubt about its subject: “African Slavery in…
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On December 19, 1776, Thomas Paine published the first of his series of pamphlets titled “The American Crisis” in The Pennsylvania Journal. This work marked a pivotal moment in the American Revolution. Beginning with the now-iconic line, “These are the times that try men’s…
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