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Liberty's Exiles - The Loss of America and the Remaking of the British Empire. (Paperback)
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Liberty's Exiles - The Loss of America and the Remaking of the British Empire. (Paperback)
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'More than just a work of first-class scholarship, Liberty's Exiles
is a deeply moving masterpiece that fulfils the historian's most
challenging ambition: to revivify past experience.' Niall Ferguson
Liberty's Exiles was shortlisted for the 2011 BBC Samuel Johnson
Prize. Early in the afternoon of 25 November 1783, the American
Revolution was finally over; the British were gone, the patriots
were back and a key moment inscribed itself in the annals of the
emerging United States. Territorial independence from Great Britain
had effectively begun. In 'Liberty's Exiles', Maya Jasanoff
examines the realities of the end of the Revolution, through
looking at the lives of the Loyalist refugees - those men and women
who took Britain's side. She tells the story of Elizabeth Johnston
from Savannah, whose family went on to settle in St Augustine,
Scotland, Jamaica and Nova Scotia; Reverend Jacob Bailey, who fled
from New England across rough seas to Canada with his family and
little more than the clothes on his back; five-year-old Catherine
Skinner - the daughter of a loyalist - who was trapped as a
prisoner in her home, hiding from the gunshots of rebel raiders.
Their experiences speak eloquently of a larger history of exile,
mobility and the shaping of the British Empire in the wake of the
American War. Beautifully written and rich with source material,
'Liberty's Exiles' is a history of the American Revolution unlike
any before.
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