TPNHA Editor's Note TPNHA is leading an international effort to expand and clarify the Paine Canon. We have attempted to mark those works that have come into question and are doubtful that they are the work of Paine. The Canon is expanding as new works and correspondence not previously in collected writings of Paine are […]
AFRICAN SLAVERY IN AMERICA Published in the Pennsylvania Journal on March 8, 1775, this essay was put into the Paine corpus by Moncure Conway in 1894. Other than Paine's opposition to slavery, there is no basis to consider this Paine's work other than Benjamin Rush's confused letter in 1809 referring to an anti-slavery article by
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Foner says this essay shows Paine's interest in India, "together with 'A Serious Thought'". But Paine did not write A Serious Thought either. This is a personal study of the tragedy of Clive, Paine uses Clive as an object of ridicule of British colonialism, but the politics is not brought up in this essay. Very
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USEFUL and ENTERTAINING HINTS from the Pennsylvania Magazine February, 1775. "The real value of a thing, Is as much money as 'twill bring." IN the possession of the Philadelphia-Library Company (See Note), is a cabinet of Fossils, with several specimens of earth, clay, sand, &c. with some account of each, and where brought from. Note:
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A DIALOGUE BETWEEN GENERAL WOLFE AND GENERAL GAGE IN A WOOD NEAR BOSTON This work is most likely written by an author we don't have in our author-files to compare to, but Paine is definitely not the author. He does not rank in any significance in all the tests made with all possible authors. It
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