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This document summarizes Letters from an American Farmer by Michel Guillaume Jean de Crèvecœur. The work was published in 1782 and written as a series of letters to an unnamed recipient. It explores themes of the American Dream and idealized America, while also being critical of slavery. One letter describes the natural beauty and prosperity of America, with cities and farms covering land that was once wild. However, another letter contrasts the joy in Charleston with the unseen misery of slaves, who toil in hardship and are whipped to excessively labor so others can live happily. The document concludes by noting Crèvecœur positions himself as a simple farmer, not an expert, and hopes his letters will be received based on his
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This document provides an excerpt from Letters from an American Farmer by Michel Guillaume Jean de Crèvecœur. The passage describes the idealized America that a newly arrived Englishman would see, with fair cities, villages, fields and good infrastructure covering land that was once wild. However, it contrasts this with the hidden scenes of misery of slavery, where slaves endure hardship and excessive labor so the colonists in Charleston can live happily. The document establishes Crèvecœur's anti-slavery views and themes of the American Dream and idealization of America in the work.
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Letters from an American Farmer by Michel Guillaume Jean de Crèvecœur provides a perspective on American life in the late 18th century through a series of letters. The letters celebrate the American Dream and idealized vision of America as a land of opportunity but also showcase Crèvecœur's anti-slavery views. One letter contrasts the festivities in Charleston with the unseen misery of slaves who endure hardship, torture, and incessant labor. While the chosen race lives happily, the unfortunate slaves toil under a scorching sun without proper food or drink. Another letter establishes that the writer is a simple farmer, not an expert, who will share his spontaneous impressions of each subject through these letters.
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Letters from an American Farmer by Michel Guillaume Jean de Crèvecœur provides a perspective on American life in the late 18th century through a series of letters. The letters discuss themes of the American Dream and idealized vision of America, as well as provide an early anti-slavery viewpoint. In particular, one letter contrasts the joy and festivity in Charleston with the misery of slavery on plantations, describing the hard labor and conditions endured by slaves that supported the wealth of plantation owners. The work also establishes the writer as a simple farmer seeking to share his impressions with the recipient, rather than provide a philosophical or scientific analysis.
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Michel Guillaume Jean de Crèvecœur published Letters from an American Farmer in 1782. The letters discuss themes of the American Dream, the emergence of the anti-slavery movement, and Crèvecœur presents himself as a simple American farmer despite really being a Frenchman. In one letter, he describes the contrast between the joy and festivity in Charleston and the misery of the slaves in the countryside whose labor produces all the wealth of Charleston but suffer incessant toil, hardship, and abuse.
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This document provides an excerpt from Letters from an American Farmer by Michel Guillaume Jean de Crèvecœur. The passage describes the idealized America that a newly arrived Englishman would see, with fair cities, villages, fields and good infrastructure covering land that was once wild. However, it contrasts this with the hidden scenes of misery of slavery, where slaves endure hardship and excessive labor so the colonists in Charleston can live happily. The document establishes Crèvecœur's anti-slavery views and themes of the American Dream and idealization of America in the work.
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Letters from an American Farmer by Michel Guillaume Jean de Crèvecœur provides a perspective on American life in the late 18th century through a series of letters. The letters celebrate the American Dream and idealized vision of America as a land of opportunity but also showcase Crèvecœur's anti-slavery views. One letter contrasts the festivities in Charleston with the unseen misery of slaves who endure hardship, torture, and incessant labor. While the chosen race lives happily, the unfortunate slaves toil under a scorching sun without proper food or drink. Another letter establishes that the writer is a simple farmer, not an expert, who will share his spontaneous impressions of each subject through these letters.
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Letters from an American Farmer by Michel Guillaume Jean de Crèvecœur provides a perspective on American life in the late 18th century through a series of letters. The letters discuss themes of the American Dream and idealized vision of America, as well as provide an early anti-slavery viewpoint. In particular, one letter contrasts the joy and festivity in Charleston with the misery of slavery on plantations, describing the hard labor and conditions endured by slaves that supported the wealth of plantation owners. The work also establishes the writer as a simple farmer seeking to share his impressions with the recipient, rather than provide a philosophical or scientific analysis.
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Michel Guillaume Jean de Crèvecœur published Letters from an American Farmer in 1782. The letters discuss themes of the American Dream, the emergence of the anti-slavery movement, and Crèvecœur presents himself as a simple American farmer despite really being a Frenchman. In one letter, he describes the contrast between the joy and festivity in Charleston and the misery of the slaves in the countryside whose labor produces all the wealth of Charleston but suffer incessant toil, hardship, and abuse.
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Booker T. Washington Delivers the 1895 Atlanta
Compromise Speech
Mr. President and Gentlemen of the Board of Directors and Citizens:
Not only this, but the opportunity here afforded will awaken among us a new era of industrial progress.
Ignorant and inexperienced, it is not strange that in the first years of our new life we began at the top
instead of at the bottom; that a seat in Congress or the state legislature was more sought than real estate or
industrial skill; that the political convention or stump speaking had more attractions than starting a dairy
farm or truck garden.
A ship lost at sea for many days suddenly sighted a friendly vessel. From the mast of the unfortunate
vessel was seen a signal,“Water, water; we die of thirst!” The answer from the friendly vessel at once
came back, “Cast down your bucket where you are.” A second time the signal, “Water, water; send us
water!” ran up from the distressed vessel, and was answered, “Cast down your bucket where you are.”
And a third and fourth signal for water was answered, “Cast down your bucket where you are.” The
captain of the distressed vessel, at last heeding the injunction, cast down his bucket, and it came up full of
fresh, sparkling water from the mouth of the Amazon River. To those of my race who depend on bettering
their condition in a foreign land or who underestimate the importance of cultivating friendly relations
with the Southern white man, who is their next-door neighbor, I would say: “Cast down your bucket
where you are”— cast it down in making friends in every manly way of the people of all races by whom
we are surrounded.
Cast it down in agriculture, mechanics, in commerce, in domestic service, and in the professions. And in
this connection it is well to bear in mind that whatever other sins the South may be called to bear, when it
comes to business, pure and simple, it is in the South that the Negro is given a man’s chance in the
commercial world, and in nothing is this Exposition more eloquent than in emphasizing this chance. Our
greatest danger is that in the great leap from slavery to freedom we may overlook the fact that the masses
of us are to live by the productions of our hands, and fail to keep in mind that we shall prosper in
proportion as we learn to dignify and glorify common labour, and put brains and skill into the common
occupations of life; shall prosper in proportion as we learn to draw the line between the superficial and the
substantial, the ornamental gewgaws of life and the useful. No race can prosper till it learns that there is
as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. It is at the bottom of life we must begin, and not at
the top. Nor should we permit our grievances to overshadow our opportunities.
To those of the white race who look to the incoming of those of foreign birth and strange tongue and
habits for the prosperity of the South, were I permitted I would repeat.
The Evils of Slavery, and the Cure of Slavery
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The neoclassical period the age of enlightenment
The Neoclassical Period, also known as the Age of Enlightenment, occurred between 1688-1798. It began as an intellectual movement that used reason to advance knowledge and reform science. Literature of this period questioned religion and emphasized reason, logic, and the individual. Satire was a common genre used to critique politics and society. Example works included Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal" and Voltaire's "Micromégas," which used satire to comment on social issues in Ireland and Western culture, respectively.
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- 1. Letters from an American Farmer Michel Guillaume Jean de Crèvecœur or J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur1735-1813 Published1782
- 2. Themes Genre- Epistolary; written as a series of letters to un-named recipient. American Dream/Idealized America Anti-Slavery- James, the speaker, gives a negative view on slavery in America
- 3. “I wish that I could be acquainted with the feelings and thoughts which must agitate the heart and present themselves to the mind of an enlightened Englishman when he first lands on this continent. He must greatly rejoice that he lived at a time to see this fair country discovered and settled; he must necessarily feel a share of national pride when he views the chain of settlements which embellish these extended shores…Here he beholds the fair cities, substantial villages, extensive AMERICA fields, an immense country filled with decent houses, good roads, orchards, meadows, and bridges where an hundred years ago all was wild, woody and uncultivated!”(961) “The American ought therefore to love this
- 4. “While all is joy, festivity, and happiness in Charles Town, would you imagine that scenes of misery overspread in the country? Their ears by habit are become deaf, their hearts are hardened; they neither see, hear, nor feel for the woes of their poor slaves, from whose painful labours all their wealth proceeds. Here the horrors of slavery, the hardship of incessant toils, are unseen; no one thinks with compassion of those showers of sweat and tears which from the bodies of Africans daily drop and moisten the ground the till. The cracks of the whip urging these miserable beings to excessive labour are far too distant from the gay capitol to be heard. The ANTI SLAVERY chosen race eat, drink, and live happy, while the unfortunate one grubs up the ground, raises indigo, or husks the rice, exposed to a sun full as scorching as their native one, without the support of good food, without the cordials of any cheering liquor. This great contrast has often afforded me subjects of the
- 5. “Remember that you have laid the COMMON MAN foundation of this correspondence; you well know that I am neither a philosopher, politician, divine, or naturalist, but a simple farmer. I flatter myself, therefore, that you’ll receive my letters as conceived, not according to scientific rules to which I am perfect stranger, but agreeable to the spontaneous impressions
- 6. Related Authors Thomas Jefferson- Crèvecœur shared Jefferson’s opinion of the benefits of having an agrarian economy, with free men who farm and there is an emphasis with working the land. “The Interesting Life of the Olaudah Equiano” by Equiano; Both he and Crèvecœur address an audience on a subject trying to persuade readers, however Equiano’s was more powerful because he was more clear and because of who he was an African American.