The Loyalist Americans
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Author | : Maya Jasanoff |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 490 |
Release | : 2012-03-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1400075475 |
Download Liberty's Exiles Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
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.
Author | : Sleepy Hollow Restorations (Organization) |
Publisher | : Tarrytown, N.Y. : Sleepy Hollow Restorations |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
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Essays presented at a conference held at Tarrytown, N.Y., Nov. 2-3, 1973, and sponsored by Sleepy Hollow Restorations and the New York State American Revolution Bicentennial Commission. Bibliography: p. 163. Includes index.
Author | : Robert McCluer Calhoon |
Publisher | : New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich |
Total Pages | : 606 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Download The Loyalists in Revolutionary America, 1760-1781 Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Comments on the personalities who criticized or opposed colonial resistance during the pre-Revolutionary period and describes loyalist activity between 1776 and 1781.
Author | : Claude Halstead Van Tyne |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 1902 |
Genre | : American loyalists |
ISBN | : |
Download The Loyalists in the American Revolution Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
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.
Author | : Ruma Chopra |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2013-06-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1442205733 |
Download Choosing Sides Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
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.
Author | : Alan Gilbert |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 2012-04-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0226293076 |
Download Black Patriots and Loyalists Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
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.
Author | : Joseph Galloway |
Publisher | : London : Printed for G. and T. Wilkie |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 1788 |
Genre | : American Confederate voluntary exiles |
ISBN | : |
Download The Claim of the American Loyalists Reviewed and Maintained Upon Incontrovertible Principles of Law and Justice Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Author | : Wallace Brown |
Publisher | : New York : Morrow |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : American loyalists |
ISBN | : |
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" ... Hindsight and success have lent the stamp of respectable inevitability to the Revolutionaries, but there was a middle way between dependence and independence, the way of the American Loyalists. It is the story of these losers that this book seeks to tell" -- Pref.
Author | : Holger Hoock |
Publisher | : Crown Publishing Group (NY) |
Total Pages | : 578 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0804137285 |
Download Scars of Independence Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Tory hunting -- Britain's dilemma -- Rubicon -- Plundering protectors -- Violated bodies -- Slaughterhouses -- Black holes -- Skiver them! -- Town-destroyer -- Americanizing the war -- Man for man -- Returning losers
Author | : René Chartrand |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 141 |
Release | : 2013-01-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 147280032X |
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To celebrate the 450th title in the Men-at-Arms series, this book examines in much more depth than previously the units and the uniforms of a still-controversial army: the many thousands of American colonists who chose to fight for King George during the Revolution. As well as the better-known corps from the Atlantic seaboard, the author covers the units raised for service against the Spanish in the Floridas, the Caribbean islands and Central America. The text is illustrated with portraits, photographs of rare surviving artefacts, and with color reconstructions by Gerry Embleton, the respected expert on 18th century American forces whose work was recently exhibited in the Smithsonian Institute.