American Literature / Unit 5 AML 0408 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Crèvecœur: "What Is an American?"
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The idea
Born in Normandy, Crèvecœur came to North America in seventeen fifty-five, served as a surveyor and cartographer, and bought a farm in Orange County, New York. His Letters from an American Farmer asks what an American is, and answers with a new man formed by new land.
In practice
A French farmer asking the founding question.
Where people slip
A Tory sympathizer, he left in the Revolution.
Your place on the trail
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