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A 6 page discussion of the insight provided into European thought by this French author. Interestingly, Crèvecoeur only lived in the Americas for a relatively short period of time. He became a naturalized citizen, however, and even ventured out among the indigenous inhabitants of the country. His roots, however, and his ideological framework were definitely firmly planted in Europe. Never-the-less, Crèvecoeur’s so-called letters offer tremendous insight into the question of what it is to be an American, as well as how that status relates to such topics as the wilderness and even slavery. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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"Letters From an American Farmer" frequently find themselves immersed in a diversity of discussions on American government,
politics, the concept of wilderness, and even the subject of slavery. Interestingly the author of these letters, the Frenchman Michel Guillaume Jean de Cr?vecoeur, only lived in the Americas
for a relatively short period of time. Cr?vecoeur first arrived here from Europe in 1759 (Caravan, 2003). He purchased a farm in New York and lived there for
only some eleven years. Although he would become a naturalized citizen his roots were definitely in Europe. He would publish the letters in London, in fact, after returning
back to Europe in 1780 (Caravan, 2003). Never-the-less, these so-called letters offer tremendous insight into the question of what it is to be an American, as well as how
that status relates to such topics as the wilderness and even slavery. Cr?vecoeur was quite an interesting individual. French by birth and
descended from nobility, he would venture out into the American "wilderness" seeking a means of bringing that wilderness into hand, instilling some semblance of order and productivity. He did
not resign himself to mingling among his fellow Europeans in this vast new world, instead he sought out the company of the indigenous peoples themselves and was even adopted by
the Oneidas of Connecticut (Woodlief, 2003). He achieve what many who wrote about this new land never even attempted. He found footing in the realities of the wild
and open expanses of a land which until the arrival of the Europeans had remained virtually unchanged for centuries. Cr?vecoeurs true desire, however, was to identify a means of
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