This essay is about J. Hector St. Jean Crevecoeur’s conception of American identity as presented in his work Letters from an American Farmer.

Please answer the following question. Your answer should employ no larger than 12-point font and no smaller than 1-inch margins; and it should span no more than 8 single or double-spaced pages. Your essay should be submitted to Husky CT as either a Word document or PDF. Relying upon relevant course material, please assess the following claim: J. Hector St. Jean Crevecoeur’s Letters from an American Farmer offers a conception of American identity that: registers the 18th century shift away from a religious-based national identity; borrows from Benjamin Franklin’s conception of virtuous citizenship; institutes a particular biological understanding of who can be an American; and sets the stage for Antebellum (pre-Civil War) ambivalence over the legacy of the Founding Fathers.
Resources: J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur, Letters from an American Farmer (in Gunn, pgs. 472-483)
Abigail Adams ( is the only resources needed for the essay)