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Today episode 81, common sense. In January 1776 a new political pamphlet swept across the colonies.

Common Sense was first published in Philadelphia as an anonymous pamphlet.

The first run of a thousand copies quickly sold out and numerous reprints began to pop up all over the continent. Later editions named the author as Thomas Payne.

Many men at the time, as well as future historians,

credit the publication of common sense

as the catalyst that finally convinced

the vast majority of Americans

that they had to fight for complete independence from Britain.

Before I talk about the document, I want to talk a little about the man who wrote it.

Thomas Payne had been born in Thetford, England in 1737. His father was a

Quaker who made a living making stays. There's a popular myth that Payne's father was a corset maker.

This is based on a misunderstanding. In the 1800s, stays were solid reinforcements usually made from well bone that were part of a

corset. Historians at the time thought they were talking about those kinds of stays.

They were not. The stays that the Payne family made

were thick ropes that were used in ships. Payne's mother came from a well-off

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