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The antebellum period was a time for a great reform in American literacy, with many Americans expressing a uniquely American writing style. Who are two such writers?
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What is Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Washington Irving, James Fenimore Coper, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Edgar Allan Poe.