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The other loyalists : ordinary people, royalism, and the revolution in the middle colonies, 1763-1787 / edited by Joseph S. Tiedemann, Eugene R. Fingerhut, and Robert W. Venables.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American loyalists--Middle Atlantic States.
- American loyalists.
- Middle Atlantic States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783.
- Middle Atlantic States.
- Physical Description:
- x, 210 p. : ill., maps.
- Place of Publication:
- Albany : State University of New York Press, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In The Other Loyalists we meet for the first time the ordinary people of the Middle Colonies who remained loyal to Britain during the American Revolution. The first important new scholarship in decades, these essays uncover the reasons why middle- and lower-class citizens chose to become Loyalists, how they participated in and endured the Revolution, and what happened to them because of their defeat. In unprecedented clarity we are allowed to see the tragedy, violence, and suffering of places such as the lower Delaware and Hudson valleys, the Delmarva Peninsula, western Pennsylvania, and northern Virginia. This book fills an important void in our understanding of the American Revolution, reminding us that not all Loyalists were members of the elite and that their motivations were a complicated medley of political beliefs, religious convictions, and self-interest.
- Contents:
- Places
- "The ghost of Clow" : loyalist insurgency in the Delmarva Peninsula / Wayne Bodle
- "Loyalty is now bleeding in New Jersey" : motivations and mentalities of the disaffected / David J. Fowler
- Groups
- Black loyalists and African American allegiance in the mid-Hudson Valley / Michael E. Groth
- Northern Virginia's Quakers and the War for Independence : negotiating a path of virtue in a revolutionary world / A. Glenn Crothers
- "Faithful allies of the King" : the Crown's Haudenosaunee allies in the revolutionary struggle for New York / Robert W. Venables
- People
- The ordeal of John Connolly : the pursuit of wealth through loyalism / Doug MacGregor
- From revolutionary to traitor : the American career of Herman Zedtwitz / Eugene R. Fingerhut.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781438425986
- 1438425988
- 9781441612502
- 1441612505
- OCLC:
- 369172727
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