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Essay Archive - Thomas Paine and Samuel Adams Contributing to "Selling the Revolution"
Thomas Paine and Samuel Adams Contributing to "Selling the Revolution"
Thomas Paine and Samuel Adams each contributed to “selling the
revolution” to a complacent society through their pamphlets, and writing
such as Common Sense, and The American Crisis, The Rights of Man, and The
Age of Reason, all of which concentrated on the emotions of the society
during the Revolutionary Era.
Englishman Thomas Paine is said to be the most persuasive writer of
the revolution. After 37 years of drifting from various jobs such as
corset maker to a school teacher he decided to come to the United States
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