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Letters from an American farmer

by J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur · 1782

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Letters from an American Farmer (1782) is a collection of epistolary essays that explore the experience of an emigrant French aristocrat turned farmer in America. The work examines themes of personal determination, freedom from institutional oppression, the fertility of the land, and the institution of slavery, posing the question of what it means to be an American.

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1782
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1782 · ISBN 9781406957044
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Letters from an American farmer by J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur has 140 pages.

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