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The literature of the American Revolutionary period influences future generations of American literature through the social and political themes. The American Revolutionary period was influenced from the political and social struggles of the American colonists. They wrote about their personal lives and their opinions of the development of the new country. Writers of the period include Samuel Adams, Thomas Paine, and Benjamin Franklin. Samuel Adams organized the Declaration of Rights of the Stamp Act with William Molineux. After the Revolutionary War, Thomas Jefferson wrote the United States Declaration of Independence. Many writers followed in their footsteps, writing about the political events they were facing. Authors wrote about slavery

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