Mercy Otis Warren
Mercy Otis Warren
Mercy Otis Warrenwas a political writer and propagandist of the American Revolution. In the eighteenth century, topics such as politics and war were thought to be the province of men. Few men and fewer women had the education or training to write about these subjects. Warren was an exception. During the years before the American Revolution, Warren published poems and plays that attacked royal authority in Massachusetts and urged colonists to resist British infringements on colonial rights and liberties...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth14 September 1728
CountryUnited States of America
It may be a mistake, that man, in a state of nature, is more disposed to cruelty than courtesy
A declaration of the independence of America, and the sovereignty of the United STates was drawn by the ingenious and philosophic pen of Thomas Jefferson, Esquire, a delegate from the state of Virginia