The first thing I noticed when I started to read this document was that Thomas Paine was once an “English corset maker and civil servant. For some reason I thought Thomas Paine was born in America. I also thought that he was similar in status to someone like Thomas Jefferson or George Washington, a white landowner who was involved in politics so imagine my surprise when I read that he was a corset maker. I didn’t even know that was a profession!! This observation leads me to the question: What in the heck did Britain do to this poor guy that made him side with the colonists so passionately? You would think that a British man would side with his home country unless his loyalties laid with the colonists because he agreed with actual representation
