Liberty's Exiles
Title | Liberty's Exiles PDF eBook |
Author | Maya Jasanoff |
Publisher | Vintage |
Pages | 490 |
Release | 2012-03-06 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1400075475 |
NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER This groundbreaking book offers the first global history of the loyalist exodus to Canada, the Caribbean, Sierra Leone, India, and beyond. At the end of the American Revolution, sixty thousand Americans loyal to the British cause fled the United States and became refugees throughout the British Empire. Liberty’s Exiles tells their story. This surprising new account of the founding of the United States and the shaping of the post-revolutionary world traces extraordinary journeys like the one of Elizabeth Johnston, a young mother from Georgia, who led her growing family to Britain, Jamaica, and Canada, questing for a home; black loyalists such as David George, who escaped from slavery in Virginia and went on to found Baptist congregations in Nova Scotia and Sierra Leone; and Mohawk Indian leader Joseph Brant, who tried to find autonomy for his people in Ontario. Ambitious, original, and personality-filled, this book is at once an intimate narrative history and a provocative analysis that changes how we see the revolution’s “losers” and their legacies.
The Loyalists in Revolutionary America, 1760-1781
Title | The Loyalists in Revolutionary America, 1760-1781 PDF eBook |
Author | Robert McCluer Calhoon |
Publisher | New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich |
Pages | 606 |
Release | 1973 |
Genre | History |
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Comments on the personalities who criticized or opposed colonial resistance during the pre-Revolutionary period and describes loyalist activity between 1776 and 1781.
The Loyalists in the American Revolution
Title | The Loyalists in the American Revolution PDF eBook |
Author | Claude Halstead Van Tyne |
Publisher | |
Pages | 380 |
Release | 1902 |
Genre | American loyalists |
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This book traces the history of those who remained loyal to the crown of Great Britain during the American Revolution. The book delves into the reasons behind loyalism, the political implications of loyalists, and the condition of life as a loyalist in the transition out of the United States.
Black Patriots and Loyalists
Title | Black Patriots and Loyalists PDF eBook |
Author | Alan Gilbert |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 386 |
Release | 2012-04-20 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0226293076 |
In this thought-provoking history, Gilbert illuminates how the fight for abolition and equality - not just for the independence of the few but for the freedom and self-government of the many - has been central to the American story from its inception."--Pub. desc.
The Claim of the American Loyalists Reviewed and Maintained Upon Incontrovertible Principles of Law and Justice
Title | The Claim of the American Loyalists Reviewed and Maintained Upon Incontrovertible Principles of Law and Justice PDF eBook |
Author | Joseph Galloway |
Publisher | London : Printed for G. and T. Wilkie |
Pages | 160 |
Release | 1788 |
Genre | American Confederate voluntary exiles |
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Choosing Sides
Title | Choosing Sides PDF eBook |
Author | Ruma Chopra |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 2013-06-07 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1442205733 |
Though scores of texts, films and stories have been told about the American Revolution from the perspectives of our Founding Fathers and their followers, comparatively little is known about those colonists who resisted the revolutionary movement, and tried desperately to preserve their nation’s ties to the British Empire. Choosing Sides: Loyalists in Revolutionary America shows us that America’s original colonies were not nearly as united behind the concept of forming free, independent states as our society’s collective memory would have us believe. There were, in fact, numerous colonists, slaves, and Native Americans who counted themselves among the Loyalists: those who never wanted to sever ties with the English crown and who viewed revolution as an unnatural and unlawful mistake. Too often overlooked, these men and women made valid and valuable arguments against the formation of the United States—both weighing the costs of revolution and the perilousness of existing without the Empire’s command— arguments that even hundreds of years into America’s existence were echoed and championed both within and beyond our borders. Colonists from commoners to clergymen had nuanced and complex reasons for wanting to remain under British control, and an awareness of these reasons and their origins paints a more historically accurate portrait of the American populous around the time of our country’s founding. This volume not only showcases Dr. Chopra’s comprehensive analysis of Loyalism and its arguments, but includes letters, legislation and even poems written by Loyalists during and after the Revolutionary War. Choosing Sides lays a detailed foundation of facts for its readers and provides them entry points to the debate surrounding the genesis of the United States. It is both a primary source and a touchstone for original interpretations and discussions.
Loyalism in New York During the American Revolution
Title | Loyalism in New York During the American Revolution PDF eBook |
Author | Alexander Clarence Flick |
Publisher | |
Pages | 292 |
Release | 1901 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
Classic study including extensive appendix of forfeited estates. Topics include the rise of the Loyalist Party, final organization, war against the loyalists, county inquisitorial organizations, activities of loyalists after issuance of the Declaration of Independence, activities of the commissioners on loyalists (1776-81), confiscation and sale of the property of loyalists, emigration of loyalists to Great Britain, Canada and Nova Scotia, and treatment of loyalists by Great Britain. Alexander Clarence Flick was Sometime University Fellow in History at Columbia University and Professor of European History at Syracuse University.