TY  - BOOK
AU  - StJohn de Crèvecoeur,J.Hector
AU  - Blake,Warren Barton
TI  - Letters from an American Farmer
AV  - E151 
PY  - 2003///
CY  - Salt Lake City, UT
PB  - Project Gutenberg
KW  - Nantucket (Mass.)
KW  - United States -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800
KW  - United States -- Social life and customs -- 1775-1783
KW  - St. John de Crèvecoeur, J. Hector, 1735-1813
N1  - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letters_from_an_American_Farmer; Release date is 2003-11-01; Steve Harris, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team; Original publication data not identified
N2  - "Letters from an American Farmer" by J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur is a series of letters first published in 1782. Through the voice of a fictional farmer named James, this work explores life in the British colonies of America before the Revolutionary War. The twelve letters examine diverse topics, from defining American identity to describing Quaker society on Nantucket, confronting the brutal realities of slavery in Charleston, and witnessing a farmer's anguish as war approaches. Recognized as one of the first works in American literary canon, it blends documentary observation with social commentary. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
UR  - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4666
ER  -