8 mars 1775 - Thomas Paine publishes abolitionist essay
Description:
• English-born Founding Father (political activist, philosopher, political theorist, revolutionary)• His ideas reflected Enlightenment-era ideals of human rights.
• Publication of an unsigned abolitionist essay titled 'African Slavery in America' on March 8, 1775 in Pennsylvania Magazine > calling for the abolition of slavery and the resettlement of freed slaves => a month later: the founding of the Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage (America’s first abolitionist group)
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Date:
8 mars 1775
Maintenaint
~ Il y a 250 ans