Answer: I think it would be eight, i remember something about eight abolitionists.
Paine, along with many revolutionaries of the period, viewed government as being inherently limited, in the sense that it was meant to serve the people and not the other way around. That's why he wrote "common sense" which talked about the absurdity of British rule over the colonies.
Well I think they need to be able to write since most historians have to write a thesis in the career
Pretty much anyone who was not male, rich, white, straight and fit into the medieval English ideal. Hope this helped!