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Letters from an American Farmer: A History of Rural America, Observations of Country Life and Farming during the Revolutionary War

Letters from an American Farmer: A History of Rural America, Observations of Country Life and Farming during the Revolutionary War

Crèvecoeur, Hector St John de
Blake, Warren Barton

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ISBN10: 0359030688
ISBN13: 9780359030682
Publisher: Lulu Pr
Published: Aug 17 2018
Pages: 126
Weight: 0.43
Height: 0.30 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur was a farmer and diplomat in New England during the American Revolutionary War. These are his valuable observations of rural life and ordinary citizens of a nation soon to attain independence. While the military skirmishes and personalities of the era - such as the Founding Fathers - are well-recorded, everyday living in America at the time the United States burst into existence is not nearly as known by historians. These eloquent accounts of how average Americans lived amid the upheaval of Revolution are unique, memorable and authentic. The New England of the 18th century was a rural society; industry was scarce and undeveloped, and the peoples worked with their hands rather than with machines. Many labored hard for years to buy their own parcel of land; the author's depictions of Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard are vivid - the behaviors, manners and trading are detailed in a plain yet enjoyable style.

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