In Becoming America, author Jon Butler persuasively argues that the late American colonial period of 1680-1770 was one of monumental change, the end result being an essentially "modern- culture. ... Indeed, Butler paints a picture of a late colonial culture not only radically reshaped by immigration, but essentially the same as modern American culture. ... Butler proves that these characteristics of American culture and the American people have their origins in the late colonial era. ... Likewise, rich plantation owners who leeched off the labor of their slaves came to dominate the southern ...

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