Publisher Description
Maya Jasanoff won the National Book Critics Circle Award for her groundbreaking work Liberty’s Exiles. After the American Revolution, 60,000 British loyalists fled the U.S. for Canada, the Caribbean, India, and other points abroad. Jasanoff traces their harrowing journeys across the globe, shedding light on their ambitions, the post-revolutionary world they encountered, and their legacies.
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“Jasanoff’s book is a study of the loyalist diaspora following the American Revolution, and especially an examination of the “spirit of 1783” (as opposed to the “spirit of 1776″, one presumes). Those inhabitants of the thirteen colonies who remained loyal to the crown fled to other parts of the British Empire, most especially to British North America (what would become Canada), but also to the West Indies (Jamaica and Bahamas), Britain itself, and a few to Australia and India. As a Canadian and a descendant of loyalists, I was aware of the loyalist settlements in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, but the others were unknown to me. I found this a fascinating and enlightening book on the subject.”
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Catherine (4 out of 5 stars)
