Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World

Maya Jasanoff

Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Random House USA Inc
Country
India
Published
6 March 2012
Pages
496
ISBN
9781400075478

Liberty’s Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World

Maya Jasanoff

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.

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