Thomas Spence : English Radical, Advocate of the Common Ownership of Land, Democracy Advocate, Revolutionary Feminist, and near Lifelong Prisoner and Exile

July 2, 1750 — September 8, 1814

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An English Radical and advocate of the common ownership of land and a democratic equality of the sexes. Spence was one of the leading revolutionaries of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. He was born in poverty and died the same way, after long periods of imprisonment, in 1814.

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July 2, 1750

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September 8, 1814

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