of Grass” by Walt Whitman, “The Scarlett Letter” by Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Raven” by Edgar Allen Poe, “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” by Harriet Sowe, “Self-Reliance” by Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Poor Richard’s Almanac” by Benjamin Franklin, “Common Sense” by Thomas Paine, and “The Declaration of Independence” written by Thomas Jefferson. (Baym, 2012) All of these works were written before the Civil War and all of these works are very opinionated and thought provoking. I think that that is what the main purpose…
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