Carta de Thomas Paine al Abate Raynal sobre los asuntos de Norteamérica en la que se corrigen y aclaran los errores en el relato del Abate Raynal sobre la Revolución Americana (II). Introducción

Resumo

The Letter to the Abbé Raynal was first published in 1782 in response to
the appearance, a year earlier, of the English translation of the Abbé Raynal’s
account of the Revolution in America. Although he begins acknowledging the
style of the author of the highly influential Histoire philosophique et politique 
des établissements et du commerce des Européens dans les deux Indes, then he
reproaches him for his lack of practicality, and corrects what he considers to
be errors and false assumptions about the origins of the War of Independence
and the role of France in the independence movement, Thomas Paine sets out
in the Letter the universal dimension of his revolutionary principles. Eclipsed
by other works and usually overlooked, the Letter, written in the context of
diplomatic negotiations for peace, represents a turning point in the author’s
thinking as he began to think in international terms.