<Tr> <Th> Publisher </Th> <Td> Davies & Davis </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Publication date </Th> <Td> 1782 </Td> </Tr> <P> Letters from an American Farmer is a series of letters written by French American writer J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur, first published in 1782 . The considerably longer title under which it was originally published is Letters from an American Farmer; Describing Certain Provincial Situations, Manners, and Customs not Generally Known; and Conveying Some Idea of the Late and Present Interior Circumstances of the British Colonies in North America . The twelve letters cover a wide range of topics, from the emergence of an American identity to the slave trade . </P> <P> Crèvecœur wrote Letters during a period of seven years prior to the American Revolutionary War, while farming land near Orange County, New York . It is told from the viewpoint of a fictional narrator in correspondence with an English gentleman, and each letter concerns a different aspect of life or location in the British colonies of America . The work incorporates a number of styles and genres, including documentary, as well as sociological observations . </P>

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