Thomas Paine and Samuel Adams' Selling of the Revolution

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Thomas Paine and Samuel Adams' Selling of 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 to make a new start. He moved to Philadelphia where he worked as a journalist. The controversy between England and the colonies prompted him to write to write Common Sense. Through this pamphlet he caused the people to support breaking away from the British because of the way he denounced King George the 3rd (1689-1702) as a "royal brute", a murderer and a thief, and stated that we should not be a continent that is attached to an island. In 1776 while Paine was on the road with the continental army he wrote a series of pamphlets called the American Crisis where he persuaded people not to give up their fight. As best stated in the American Crisis, ...God Almighty will not give up a people to military destruction, or leave them unsupportedly to perish, who have so earnestly and so repeatedly sought to avoid the calamities of war, by every decent method which wisdom could invent. Here Paine is persuading the people to continue the fight because it is willed by the power of God and that man in himself should fight for what is right. He convinces the fearful society of what they should do. By these writing being circulated, more and more people became supportive of

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