Never before had a pamphlet been written in an inspiring style so accessible to the “common” folk of America.Ĭommon Sense made a clear case for independence and directly attacked the political, economic, and ideological obstacles to achieving it. Never before had a personally written work appealed to all classes of colonists.
One hundred twenty thousand copies sold in the first three months in a nation of three million people, making Common Sense the best-selling printed work by a single author in American history up to that time. On January 10, 1776, an obscure immigrant published a small pamphlet that ignited independence in America and shifted the political landscape of the patriot movement from reform within the British imperial system to independence from it.
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