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From Revolution to Reunion - The Reintegration of the South Carolina Loyalists (Hardcover)
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From Revolution to Reunion - The Reintegration of the South Carolina Loyalists (Hardcover)
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The American Revolution was a vicious civil war fought between
families and neighbors. Nowhere was this truer than in South
Carolina. Yet, after the Revolution, South Carolina's victorious
Patriots offered vanquished Loyalists a prompt and generous legal
and social reintegration. From Revolution to Reunion investigates
the way in which South Carolinians, Patriot and Loyalist, managed
to reconcile their bitter differences and reunite to heal South
Carolina and create a stable foundation for the new United States
to become a political and economic leader. Rebecca Brannon
considers rituals and emotions, as well as historical memory, to
produce a complex and nuanced interpretation of the reconciliation
process in post-Revolutionary South Carolina, detailing how
Loyalists and Patriots worked together to heal their society. She
frames the process in a larger historical context by comparing
South Carolina's experience with that of other states. Brannon
highlights how Loyalists apologized but also went out of their way
to serve their neighbors and to make themselves useful, even vital,
members of the new experiment in self-government and liberty
ushered in by the Revolution. Loyalists built on existing social
ties to establish themselves in the new Republic, and they did it
successfully. By 1784 the state government reinstated almost all
the Loyalists who had stayed, as the majority of Loyalists had
reinscribed themselves into the postwar nation. Brannon argues that
South Carolinians went on to manipulate the way they talked about
Loyalism in public to guarantee that memories would not be allowed
to disturb the peaceful reconciliation they had created. South
Carolinians succeeded in creating a generous and lasting
reconciliation between former enemies, but in the process they
unfortunately downplayed the dangers of civil war-which may have
made it easier for South Carolinians to choose another civil war.
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