Similarities Between Wheatley And St. John De Crevecoueur

The American Enlightenment period of the United States represents the start of a more democratic government, the freedom of practicing the religion you wish, and the many opportunities to succeed in the colonies. Wheatley and St. John de Crevecoueur use their own ability of writing to, in some way, create awareness within the colonies and their natal homes about the situation they were testifying in the Americas. They describe their own brand new different live comparing it with the one they used to have back in their early lives. Wheatley, an African-American woman that was snatched out of her parent’s arms to become a slave, manifests her experience on the passage “On Being Brought from Africa to America” being thankful to be converted into …show more content…
John de Crevecoueur makes his apparition with “Letter of a American Farmer” explaining not only how free America is for people to practice the religion they wish but what was now defined as being an American. St. John de Crevecoueur emphasizes how Americans were very hard-working, loyal, and dreamers. He illustrates that immigrants consider “home” as the place that is able to give them land and food. Immigrants refused to call themselves Dutch, German, French, English, or any other because they rather to be called Americans and live for America, the place that opened its gates of opportunities to them. In the lecture, St. John de Crevecoueur describes America as a melting pot, arguing that America has been filled with so many outside cultures, religions, and traditions that, now, have originated new ones within the colonies. St. John de Crevecoueur expresses happily to the fact that the American government was now a little more democratic than the ones ruling in Europe, where only one man has the absolute power dictating what he wants. Within this same letters St. John de Crevecoueur writes about his encounter with a terrible scene, an African-American slave being attacked by crows when he was left on the road as punishment. Even though the author once had slaves in his early life, he was in favor of abolishing slavery, that much that his natal government accused him to be a traitor. He felt terrified for such facts that he tries to abolish slavery. It looks that these new Americans were losing their founding values. Their most valuable and characteristic feature, freedom, was being mistaken and overapplied. Don’t get mistaken, St. John de Crevecoueur loved his natal home and his religion, but he found a new whole world in America for the people who found themselves