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Inventing the Loyalists
Showing that the past is often written into present concerns, and that many groups in Ontario, both powerful and disempowered, have invoked the experience of the Loyalists, Knowles significantly revises earlier interpretations of the Loyalist tradition.
AMERICAN LOYALISTS IN BRITISH MILITARY POLICY, 1775-1781..
"It is my purpose to trace the role of the loyalists in British military policy throughout the war. The importance of the loyalists in British planning has often been acknowledged, but their real function and significance in the war has never been truly studied. The subject is varied and somewhat diffuse. The ambivalence of the British attitude toward the loyalists easily obscures their role. The North ministry was at once eager to use them and unwilling to make the concessions and detailed preparations required to weld them in to an efficient force. Moreover, administration policy was influenced by narrow political and financial considerations as well as by the loyalists' potential support. And, just as the British were in the course of the war alternatively confident and pessimistic of its outcome, so too were the loyalists alternatively ignored and courted. Perhaps the only accurate general statement that can be made on the subject is that the loyalists never occupied a fixed, well-understood place in British strategy"--Preface
The Loyalist Conscience
Freedom of speech was restricted during the Revolutionary War. In the great struggle for independence, those who remained loyal to the British crown were persecuted with loss of employment, eviction from their homes, heavy taxation, confiscation of property and imprisonment. Loyalist Americans from all walks of life were branded as traitors and enemies of the people. By the end of the war, 80,000 had fled their homeland to face a dismal exile from which few would return, outcasts of a new republic based on democratic values of liberty, equality and justice.
Biographical Sketches of Loyalists of the American Revolution
This book contains an historical essay and short biographies on those who stayed loyal to Britain during the American Revolution in the American colonies. The essay focuses on the coming of the Revolution and the reasons for American rebellion or loyalism, and the sparse biographies, organized in alphabetical order, offer what is known about the loyalist and their journey.
Loyalist Land Ownership in Upper Canada’s Norfolk County, 1792–1851
After the American Revolution, many Loyalists moved north, where the British colonial government awarded them generous land grants on favourable terms. The intention behind these grants was to create a landed gentry in Upper Canada that would safeguard the colony’s political security and build social cohesion among its leadership. Loyalist Land Ownership in Upper Canada’s Norfolk County, 1792–1851 examines the long-term landholding of Loyalists and other settlers who arrived in the county before 1812 to judge whether this social experiment succeeded. Colin Read explores the various ways that settlers acquired and transmitted land, the nature of familial land sales, and the place of wom...
The Loyalist Problem in Revolutionary New England
A new history of Loyalism using revolutionary New England as a case study.
