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Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World

Maya Jasanoff

What happened to the American loyalists who lost the Revolution, left America and were scattered across the British world?

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Author
Maya Jasanoff

Why read it

  • You will see the Revolution through the eyes of those who lost it, not just the people who celebrated it
  • You will learn to ask who is missing whenever a country tells its founding story
  • You will know what starting over as a refugee in a distant colony looked like in practice

Who it is for

  • A reader who learned the Revolution only as a story of winners
  • Someone interested in refugees and how new homes get built
  • Someone curious how empires absorbed people displaced by war

Contents

  1. CAST OF CHARACTERS
  2. INTRODUCTION The Spirit of 1783
  3. PART I Refugees
  4. CHAPTER ONE Civil War
  5. CHAPTER TWO An Unsettling Peace
  6. CHAPTER THREE A New World Disorder
  7. PART II Settlers
  8. CHAPTER FOUR The Heart of Empire
  9. CHAPTER FIVE A World in the Wilderness
  10. CHAPTER SIX Loyal Americas
  11. PART III Subjects
  12. CHAPTER 7 Islands in a Storm
  13. CHAPTER EIGHT False Refuge
  14. CHAPTER NINE Promised Land
  15. CHAPTER TEN Empires of Liberty
  16. CONCLUSION Losers and Founders
  17. APPENDIX: MEASURING THE EXODUS
  18. Chapter Eight: False Refuge
  19. Chapter Nine: Promised Land
  20. Chapter Ten: Empires of Liberty
  21. Conclusion: Losers and Founders
  22. Appendix: Measuring the Exodus

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