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Unfriendly to Liberty - Loyalist Networks and the Coming of the American Revolution in New York City (Hardcover)
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Unfriendly to Liberty - Loyalist Networks and the Coming of the American Revolution in New York City (Hardcover)
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In Unfriendly to Liberty, Christopher F. Minty explores the origins
of loyalism in New York City between 1768 and 1776, and revises our
understanding of the coming of the American Revolution. Through
detailed analyses of those who became loyalists, Minty argues that
would-be loyalists came together long before Lexington and Concord
to form an organized, politically motivated, and inclusive
political group that was centered around the DeLancey faction.
Following the DeLanceys' election to the New York Assembly in 1768,
these men, elite and nonelite, championed an inclusive political
economy that advanced the public good, and they strongly protested
Parliament's reorientation of the British Empire. For New York
loyalists, it was local politics, factions, institutions, and
behaviors that governed their political activities in the build up
to the American Revolution. By focusing on political culture,
organization, and patterns of allegiance, Unfriendly to Liberty
shows how the contending allegiances of loyalists and patriots were
all but locked in place by 1775 when British troops marched out of
Boston to seize caches of weapons in neighboring villages. Indeed,
local political alignments that were formed in the imperial crises
of the 1760s and 1770s provided a critical platform for the divide
between loyalists and patriots in New York City. Political and
social disputes coming out of the Seven Years' War, more than
republican radicalization in the 1770s, forged the united force
that would make New York City a center of loyalism throughout the
American Revolution.
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