J. Hector St. John de Crévecoeur (1735-1813) wrote a series of essays in 1782, called Letters from an American Farmer. This French aristocrat wrote these essays to describe Americans and the colonial American society. Crévecoeur traveled around the American colonies to gain the information he needed to write his essays for the rest of the world to read. Crévecoeur uses his determined tone and rhetorical strategies to portray the citizens in the Americas as their own society and describes how they flourished. Crévecoeur wanted to justify why the Americans should have left the countries they did and why the Americans should no longer claim their old country. Crévecoeur states in his essay that, “A country that had no bread for him” and gave
