Response to Crevecoeur

Micheal-Guillaume Jean De Crevecoeur was an opinionated french aristocrat born in 1735 and later died in 1813. He chronicled his life as a immigrant born in  France who later traveled and ended his journey in America. He is a man that believed that America was a land of opportunity, and is also responsible for America refernce to being a melting pot. Throughout his poem "Letters from an American Farmer" he refers to America as a place of refuge for European peasants. Peasants who in their mother country had no future or rights. There were treated as subclass individuals who were only good for work and war. Their fortunes changed however, when these same peasants reached the Americas their wealth increased three fold. People once regarded as the scum of society were now highly respected aristocrats that denounced their loyalty to mother lands. Because for these Pilgrims America had become their mother land, "Ubi panic ibi patria" Where there is bread is one's motherland, and America had provided a bountiful amount of bread.