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Quotes from Letters from an American Farmer — J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur

1735–1813 France

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What then is the American, this new man? He is either an European, or the descendant of an European, hence that strange mixture of blood, which you will find in no other country. ... Here individuals of all nations are melted into a new race of men, whose labors and posterity will one day cause great changes in the world.

Letters from an American Farmer (1782)

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