Essay about the three revolutionary war writers Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry, and Abigail Adams and how they influenced the people around them

Freedom Essay

The Revolutionary War created the greatest country on earth. This war was brought about not by senseless barbarians, but by the words of many great writers and speakers. Among these was Thomas Jefferson, perhaps the most known writer of the era, who wrote our countries sacred document The Declaration of Independence. Another man who helped in the effort of liberty, was Patrick Henry, delegate of Virginia, he delivered an amazing speech about his passionate view on freedom from the British. A great female writer of the time, Abigail Adams, wife of John Adams, wrote letters to her husband explaining her views of freedom and recommending to him ways to help the colonies' cause for freedom. Going up against the strongest nation in the world at the time, the colonies needed motivation to rally troops against the British King, it was to be found in the magnificent minds of Jefferson, Henry, and Adams.

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These are our ancestors, and we owe our freedom to them.

First, is our third President and author of The Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson not only had to write a motivating document declaring independence, but he had to put on paper the emotion of all those who felt it necessary to secede from Great Britain. Jefferson made the point that people had unalienable rights that could not to be taken from them reasonably. He wrote in The Declaration of

Independence, "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness... That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it." Jefferson, being very straightforward...