5. From "What is an American?" | Individualism: A Reader
Channel: Libertarianism.org
Date: 2015-06-30

Letters from an American Farmer (New York: Duffield and Co., 1908)

J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur served as a surveyor with the French army during the French and Indian War (1754-63). This excerpt is from the third of Crèvecoeur's Letters from an American Farmer, first published in 1782. It is a classic statement of American individualism.

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