Read this passage, which Paine wrote to persuade colonists to rebel against Britain
Highlight words that contribute to the tone,
Britain, with an army to enforce her tyranny,
has declared that she has a right (not only to
TAX) but "to BIND us in ALL CASES
WHATSOEVER," and if being bound in that
manner, is not slavery, then is there not such
a thing as slavery upon earth.
-"The Crisis," No.1,
Thomas Paine