[PDF] The Loyalist Americans eBook

Author : Maya Jasanoff
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 19,43 MB
Release : 2012-03-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1400075475

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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
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 13,11 MB
Release : 1975
Category : 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
Page : 606 pages
File Size : 49,19 MB
Release : 1973
Category : History
ISBN :

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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.

Author : Claude Halstead Van Tyne
Publisher :
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 28,34 MB
Release : 1902
Category : American loyalists
ISBN :

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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.

Author : Ruma Chopra
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 24,21 MB
Release : 2013-06-07
Category : History
ISBN : 1442205733

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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 : Thomas N. Ingersoll
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 11,68 MB
Release : 2016-10-24
Category : History
ISBN : 1107128617

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A new history of Loyalism using revolutionary New England as a case study.

Author : Alan Gilbert
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 35,82 MB
Release : 2012-04-20
Category : History
ISBN : 0226293076

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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 : Wallace Brown
Publisher : New York : Morrow
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 37,86 MB
Release : 1969
Category : 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.