How Did Thomas Paine Influence Society

Thomas Paine was influential to the founding of America and early American society through his books and pamphlets, which gave ideas to the common people, which then gave ideas to the government. One of Thomas Paine’s most influential writings was his pamphlet Common Sense, which led many Americans to join the cause of declaring independence from Britain, leading to the creation of the American Government. He also published a work labeled African Slavery in America, a book which urged many slave-owning Americans to set their slaves free, after this book ws published and read some Americans let their slaves free or lessened the conditions they were under. This led to the idea of abolishing slavery being brought up in the government and eventually