Crevecoeur's 'What Is An American?'
Crevecoeur claims that being a "freeholder" influences a settler in many different ways as evidenced here in this excerpt from his work "What is an American?". "Respectable for their industry, their happy independence, the great share of freedom they possess, the good regulation of their families, and for extending the trade and the dominion of our mother country." This is all in reference to freeholders and what they do for the American culture. Before this excerpt, he claims that the first class, that first explores and discovers, are mostly vicious humans. He describes the freeholders as a second and better class. He claims that freeholder are very respectable