Possibility of social mobility in a new nation. Stories of ordinary people and their communities.
Enlightenment ideals of scientific inquiry, ‘human reason,’ and ‘mutual sympathy.’
Sentiment as a guiding principal.Idealism and common sense.‘Wit’
Thomas Paine
Common Sense, The American Crisis
Royall Tyler
The Contrast
Phyllis Wheatley
"To the University of Cambridge, in New England", Poems on Various Subjects, "On Being Brought from Africa to America"
