Corporations didn't exist at the time of the revolution, and the revolution was as much an overthrow of corporations like the Massachusetts Bay Company, the Hudson's Bay Company, and the British East India Company as it was the British Empire.

The few hundred corporations that existed by 1800 were chartered by individual states, couldn't do business outside that state, weren't allowed to participate in the political process, and couldn't buy stock in other corporations.

During and after the civil war is when "modern" corporations started to show. They made huge profits from procurement contracts and took advantage of the disorder and corruption of the times to buy legislatures, judges and even presidents. They lobbied and bribed their way to more relaxed laws that allowed them to accrue even more money and political power, leading to the first Gilded Age.

Then in 1886, the Supreme Court decided that Corporations are People, too[1], and it went downhill from there (except for a brief blip in the 1930s).

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Clara_County_v._Southern....