This history of the American Revolution in Georgia offers a
thorough examination of how landownership issues complicated and
challenged colonists' loyalties. Despite underdevelopment and
isolation, eighteenth-century Georgia was an alluring place, for it
held out to settlers of all social classes the prospect of
affordable land -- and the status that went with ownership.
Then came the Revolution and its many threats to the orderly
systems by which property was acquired and protected. As rebel and
royal leaders vied for the support of Georgia's citizens, says
Leslie Hall, allegiance became a prime commodity, with property and
the preservation of owners' rights the requisite currency for
securing it.
As Hall shows, however, the war's progress in Georgia was
indeterminate; in fact, Georgia was the only colony in which
British civil government was reestablished during the war. In the
face of continued uncertainties -- plundering, confiscation, and
evacuation -- many landowners' desires for a strong, consistent
civil authority ultimately transcended whatever political leanings
they might have had. The historical irony here, Hall's study shows,
is that the most successful regime of Georgia's Revolutionary
period was arguably that of royalist governor James Wright.
Land and Allegiance in Revolutionary Georgia is a revealing
study of the self-interest and practical motivations in competition
with a period's idealism and rhetoric.
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