March 18, 2012
OUR COPTS:
Maya Jasanoff's "Liberty's Exiles," on British Loyalists after the revolution: a review of LIBERTY'S EXILES: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World By Maya Jasanoff (Pauline Maier, Washington Post)
What happens to people who take the losing side in a revolution or a civil war?In this ambitious, empathetic and sometimes lyrical book, Maya Jasanoff tells the story of the Loyalist exiles of the American Revolution -- the 60,000 people who fled the 13 colonies of North America after their countrymen had declared their independence, had founded a republic and had successfully defended their revolution in a war that set friends, neighbors and family members against one another. Those stalwart, loyal defenders of British rule eventually dispersed into far-flung parts of the world. Although other historians have studied the Loyalists and parts of their widespread migration, "Liberty's Exiles" justly claims to be "the first global history of the Loyalist diaspora."
Posted by Orrin Judd at March 18, 2012 7:45 AM
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