Author name: Daniel Gomes de Carvalho

Daniel Gomes de Carvalho has been a professor of Modern History at the University of São Paulo (USP) since 2023, an institution where he also obtained his doctorate in 2017 with a thesis entitled "The Radical Thought of Thomas Paine (1793-1797): Architect and Work of the French Revolution." He is the author of several academic, didactic, and supplementary books, including "The French Revolution" (Contexto, 2022) and "Thomas Paine and the French Revolution" (Editora Paco, 2023). He is currently a member of the Thomas Paine National Historical Association.

Elihu Palmer illustrated by Thomas Addis Emmet, 1880 - New York Public Library

Elihu Palmer: A Forgotten Voice of Deism

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Studies in Thomas Paine

Elihu Palmer (1764 1806) was a little-known freethinker who, even after losing his vision, remained active in the intellectual debates of his time. Palmer emerged as one of the leading exponents of deism in the First American Republic. Drawing upon thinkers such as Locke, Hume, Rousseau, and Jefferson.

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The Bread Famine and the Pawnbroker; The Lesueur Brothers (undated) - Meisterdrucke reproductions.

Thomas Paine and the French Revolution

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Studies in Thomas Paine

Paine—as an English revolutionary and an actor, witness, and interpreter of the Age of Revolutions—developed a democratic vision during the period of the Convention initiated on 9 Thermidor (1794-1795) that distanced him from both Jacobin formulations and practices, and from legislations and speeches by Thermidorian deputies.

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