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Author: Thomas N. Ingersoll
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2016-10-24
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 1107128617
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A new history of Loyalism using revolutionary New England as a case study.
Author: Maya Jasanoff
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2012-03-06
Total Pages: 490
ISBN-13: 1400075475
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: Claude Halstead Van Tyne
Publisher:
Published: 1902
Total Pages: 380
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: James Henry Stark
Publisher: Boston : W.B. Clarke
Published: 1910
Total Pages: 626
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Alexander Clarence Flick
Publisher: New York, Columbia U. P
Published: 1901
Total Pages: 624
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Thomas B. Allen
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 2010-11-09
Total Pages: 498
ISBN-13: 0062010808
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An “evocatively written examination” of the Americans who fought alongside the British during the American Revolution (American Spectator). The American Revolution was not simply a battle between the independence-minded colonists and the oppressive British. As Thomas B. Allen reminds us, it was also a savage and often deeply personal civil war, in which conflicting visions of America pitted neighbor against neighbor and Patriot against Tory on the battlefield, on the village green, and even in church. In this outstanding and vital history, Allen tells the complete story of the Tories, tracing their lives and experiences throughout the revolutionary period. Based on documents in archives from Nova Scotia to London, Tories adds a fresh perspective to our knowledge of the Revolution and sheds an important new light on the little-known figures whose lives were forever changed when they remained faithful to their mother country.
Author: Sleepy Hollow Restorations (Organization)
Publisher: Tarrytown, N.Y. : Sleepy Hollow Restorations
Published: 1975
Total Pages: 200
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: Louis Garafalo
Publisher: CreateSpace
Published: 2015-08-25
Total Pages: 156
ISBN-13: 9781517063344
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Peter Oliver was the last chief justice of the Massachusetts court system prior to the start of the American Revolution. An ardent pro-British Loyalist (aka Tory), Oliver was a member of the socially elite political circle that was about to be displaced. He left Boston along with a thousand other Loyalists in March of 1776 and spent the last fifteen years of his life in England. During his exile he wrote an account of his experiences during the Revolutionary times, offering a biting and insightful perspective on the leading Patriot figures, almost all of whom he new well. History is truly written by the victors and this book attempts to give the perspective of the Loyalists, the "losers" of the American Revolution, through the experiences of this most interesting man.
Author: Ruma Chopra
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 2011-05-29
Total Pages: 319
ISBN-13: 0813931169
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Thousands of British American mainland colonists rejected the War for American Independence. Shunning rebel violence as unnecessary, unlawful, and unnatural, they emphasized the natural ties of blood, kinship, language, and religion that united the colonies to Britain. They hoped that British military strength would crush the minority rebellion and free the colonies to renegotiate their return to the empire. Of course the loyalists were too American to be of one mind. This is a story of how a cross-section of colonists flocked to the British headquarters of New York City to support their ideal of reunion. Despised by the rebels as enemies or as British appendages, New York’s refugees hoped to partner with the British to restore peaceful government in the colonies. The British confounded their expectations by instituting martial law in the city and marginalizing loyalist leaders. Still, the loyal Americans did not surrender their vision but creatively adapted their rhetoric and accommodated military governance to protect their long-standing bond with the mother country. They never imagined that allegiance to Britain would mean a permanent exile from their homes.
Author: Virginia DeJohn Anderson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 0199916861
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Prologue: lives, interrupted -- Fathers and sons -- Moses and Phoebe -- Son of Linonia -- The unhappy misunderstanding -- More extensive public service -- A very genteel looking fellow -- The terrible crisis of my earthly fate -- Post mortem
