Paine and Race: Ideologies of Racial Liberalism and Settler Colonialism in the Founding of the United States.
Thomas Paine has long been heralded as a voice of universal egalitarianism. That representation proceeds from wishful misattributions of antislavery writings and concerted misreadings of the existing archive that continue to this day. Building on insights from critical race theory, Black Marxism, se...
| Published in: | Early American Studies, An Interdisciplinary Journal Vol. 23; no. 2; pp. 177 - 215 |
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