Dunmore's New World tells the stranger-than-fiction story of Lord
Dunmore, the last royal governor of Virginia, whose long-neglected
life boasts a measure of scandal and intrigue rare in the annals of
the colonial world. Dunmore not only issued the first formal
proclamation of emancipation in American history; he also undertook
an unauthorized Indian war in the Ohio Valley, now known as
Dunmore's War, that was instrumental in opening the Kentucky
country to white settlement. In this entertaining biography, James
Corbett David brings together a rich cast of characters as he
follows Dunmore on his perilous path through the Atlantic world
from 1745 to 1809. Dunmore was a Scots aristocrat who, even with a
family history of treason, managed to obtain a commission in the
British army, a seat in the House of Lords, and three executive
appointments in the American colonies. He was an unusual figure,
deeply invested in the imperial system but quick to break with
convention. Despite his 1775 proclamation promising freedom to
slaves of Virginia rebels, Dunmore was himself a slaveholder at a
time when the African slave trade was facing tremendous popular
opposition in Great Britain. He also supported his daughter
throughout the scandal that followed her secret, illegal marriage
to the youngest son of George III-a relationship that produced two
illegitimate children, both first cousins of Queen Victoria. Within
this single narrative, Dunmore interacts with Jacobites, slaves,
land speculators, frontiersmen, Scots merchants, poor white
fishermen, the French, the Spanish, Shawnees, Creeks, patriots,
loyalists, princes, kings, and a host of others. This history
captures the vibrant diversity of the political universe that
Dunmore inhabited alongside the likes of George Washington and
Thomas Jefferson. A transgressive imperialist, Dunmore had an
astounding career that charts the boundaries of what was possible
in the Atlantic world in the Age of Revolution.
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