The Life of Thomas Paine : With a History of his Literary, Political and Religious Career in America, France, and England Paperback / softback
by Moncure Daniel Conway
Part of the Cambridge Library Collection - North American History series
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Moncure Daniel Conway (1832–1907), the son of a Virginian plantation-owner, became a Unitarian minister, but his anti-slavery views made him controversial.
He later became a freethinker, and following the outbreak of the Civil War, which deeply divided his own family, he left the United States for England in 1863.
This two-volume biography of Thomas Paine (1737–1809) was published in 1892, and was followed by a four-volume edition of his works, which did much to inspire a reassessment of Paine's importance in the 'age of revolutions'.
Conway clearly identified with Paine's radicalism as well as his activities on both sides of the Atlantic.
Volume 1 covers his early life, his arrival in America in 1774 and involvement with the cause of American independence, and the subsequent war.
In 1787 he returned to Europe, where he witnessed the fall of the Bastille, and published Rights of Man.
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