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From Thomas Paine, Common Sense and Samuel Seabury, An Alarm to the Legislature of the Province in New York (1775)
In a 250-500 word essay (including short introduction and conclusion)
address the following questions:
How do Paine and Seabury differ in their understandings of freedom? How do these two documents help us understand the time and place in which they were written? In other words, how do they help us understand the viewpoints of colonists regarding the American Revolution? Use specific examples. Make sure to include Paine’s discussion of an independent America as an “asylum for mankind” in the last paragraph and Seabury’s belief that the Continental Congress and local committees are undermining Americans’ liberties.
