Thomas+Paine

Thomas Paine was born in January 29,1737 and he died on june 8,1809 he died when he was 72, he was also buried in New rochelle, New york. He had many interests in religion, ethics and politics. Thomas Paine was also partially a writer he wrote Common sense and also The rights of man.He also introduced the concept of minimum wage,which is still used today.Thomas had a short basic education. He worked for his fathers business first and then he worked as excise officer. But during his time as a excise officer he was a very unsuccessful man, one of the reasons is because he was dismissed from his post twice. In 1774,Thomas me up with Benjamin Franklin in london and he advised him to emigrate to to the colonies. Paine landed in Philadelphia,on November,30 1774. He started as a publicist and first published African slavery in America. African slavery in america criticizing as being unjust and inhumane. He had now managed to become a co-editor of the pennsylvania magazine. ever sense Paine arrived in Philadelphia he had the sense that a rebellion was coming. The rebellion slowly became true after the boston tea party. The fist real big fights started in 1775 in Lexington and Concord.Thomas Paine believed in that any of the colonies had the right to revolt against a government that imposed taxes on them. But the british didn't give the colonist the luxury of representation in the british parliament in which did not give them the choice of rejecting more taxes being imposed on them. Then the colonist refused to buy any british goods and then a saying came around no (taxation without representation).