Liberty's Exiles by Maya Jasanoff
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The Loyalists Who Left America
Historian Maya Jasanoff traces the story of the roughly sixty thousand loyalists who left the newly independent United States after the American Revolution, following them as they resettled across Canada, the Caribbean, Britain, Sierra Leone, India and Australia.
Drawing on this global diaspora, which included white colonists, free and formerly enslaved Black loyalists, and Native American allies such as the Mohawk led by Joseph Brant, Jasanoff shows ...
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The Loyalists Who Left America
Historian Maya Jasanoff traces the story of the roughly sixty thousand loyalists who left the newly independent United States after the American Revolution, following them as they resettled across Canada, the Caribbean, Britain, Sierra Leone, India and Australia.
Drawing on this global diaspora, which included white colonists, free and formerly enslaved Black loyalists, and Native American allies such as the Mohawk led by Joseph Brant, Jasanoff shows how their experience shaped the later development of the British Empire.
A substantial work of history for readers interested in the American Revolution's wider consequences and the empire that absorbed its losers.
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