Thomas Paine was an English publicist and a propagandist. He is most known for being one of the utmost radical enlightenment political theorist in the 18th century. Paine’s racial side did not appear until he grew an interest in the stimulating and new political world of revolutionary America. He shamelessly published his broad opinions in some of his influential books at the time, “Common Sense”(1776) and “The Rights of a Man”(1791). In “Common Sense”, Paine talks about America gaining its independence from Britain. He goes into detail about freedom, equivalence and rationality. Boldly, he states his feeling on some of the systems of government. However, in “The Rights of a Man” Paine expressed vital idea’s similar to those in the enlightenment.
