Summary of Maya Jasanoff's Liberty's Exiles

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 The American Revolution changed Thomas Brown’s life. He had arrived in the colonies in 1775 to start a plantation, and within nine months, he had built a fine house and acquired land. But when the revolution began, he chose to side with the British.
#2 After the attack, Brown was taken to Augusta, where the patriots forced him to sign the association. He then rallied hundreds of backcountry residents to form a loyalist militia, the King’s Rangers, and fight back.
#3 The American Revolution was a war of ideals for many, but for others it was a test of their loyalty to their country and the British Empire. Many loyalists wanted to preserve the status quo, while others wanted to reform the imperial relationship.
#4 The American colonies were initially opposed to the British Parliament’s actions, which they saw as an abuse of imperial power. But the protests quickly turned violent, and many future loyalists were suspected of wanting to enhance royal and aristocratic power.

Sujets

• Colonisation
• History
• United States
• Histoire
• Revolutionary Periode

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 04 mai 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781669384809
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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#1

The American Revolution changed Thomas Brown’s life. He had arrived in the colonies in 1775 to start a plantation, and within nine months, he had built a fine house and acquired land. But when the revolution began, he chose to side with the British.

#2

After the attack, Brown was taken to Augusta, where the patriots forced him to sign the association. He then rallied hundreds of backcountry residents to form a loyalist militia, the King’s Rangers, and fight back.

#3

The American Revolution was a war of ideals for many, but for others it was a test of their loyalty to their country and the British Empire. Many loyalists wanted to preserve the status quo, while others wanted to reform the imperial relationship.

#4

The American colonies were initially opposed to the British Parliament’s actions, which they saw as an abuse of imperial power. But the protests quickly turned violent, and many future loyalists were suspected of wanting to enhance royal and aristocratic power.

#5

The speaker of the Pennsylvania assembly, Joseph Galloway, proposed that America have a parliament of its own: a Grand Council, headed by a president general. The colonies would thus have domestic self-government while retaining the benefits of imperial trade and protection.

#6

The vote on Galloway’s plan demonstrated the close relationship between Congress and the colonies’ wealthy elite. The plan was tabled, and instead, Congress issued a set of resolutions asserting Americans’ entitlement to all the rights, liberties, and immunities of British subjects.

#7

The American Revolution was a civil war between American colonists and British subjects. The beginning of conflict was enough to push even some former congressmen to the other side, including prominent New York merchant Isaac Low.

#8

The American Revolution was a difficult time for both the British and the American loyalists. The British decided to evacuate Boston in March 1776, setting a precedent for many more evacuations to come.

#9

In New York, the assistant rector of Trinity Church, Charles Inglis, wrote a rebuttal to Thomas Paine’s pamphlet, Common Sense, which argued against independence and republicanism. He was forced to flee the city.

#10

The Declaration of Independence, which was adopted on July 4, 1776, changed everything. It made it clear that the colonies were now independent and united states. It also made clear that anyone who supported the British was against America, and would be treated as a traitor.

#11

The American loyalists, who were mainly from New York, wanted to be treated differently from the British army. They did not want to dissolve their political bands with Britain, but instead wanted a speedy restoration of that union.

#12

The declaration of dependence illustrates who these loyalists were. It showed that they were not just the wealthy citizens of New York, but also the small-time farmers and artisans who made the city run.

#13

There was a delicate balance between being loyal to the king and staying safe in colonial New York. Many people were torn between supporting the Crown and staying safe.

#14

In 1777, Robinson was summoned before a Committee to Detect Conspiracies and interrogated about his neutrality. He was torn between his loyalty to Britain and his loyalty to America. He eventually decided to remain loyal to America.

#15

The Robinson family, who were among the first to renounce their allegiance to the American colonies, were still forced to lose their properties in the name of independence.

#16

The American Revolution did not look like a war about taxation and representation. It was a war about access to land, and it was triggered by the Proclamation of 1763, which banned colonial settlement west of the Appalachians.

#17

The Iroquois Confederation, which consisted of the Six Nations, had a treaty with Britain dating back to well before the American Revolution. The British offered Molly Brant special favors, while the American patriots stripped her of her property.

#18

The relationship between the British and the Mohawks was embodied in Molly’s brother Thayendanegea, who was named after the two sticks. He became the highest-ranking Indian in British service, and was also a devout Christian.

#19

The British surrender at Saratoga was a turning point in the American Revolution. It brought America a crucial European ally when France entered the war on America’s side.

#20

After Saratoga, British officials hoped for and expected a large turnout of loyalists to bring the war to an end. The best prospects for this lay in the southern colonies of South Carolina and Georgia.

#21

The British hoped that southern loyalists like Lightenstone would help them take control of the colonies. In 1762, Lichtenstein had immigrated to Georgia from the eastern fringe of Europe. He married Catherine Delegal, the daughter of one of the colony’s first settlers, a Huguenot.

#22

After the war, Elizabeth Lichtenstein, who had been hiding in the country with her father, returned to Savannah. She fell in love with a friend of her father’s, John Lichtenstein, and they began dating. Her father was protective of her and sent her back to her aunt’s estate.

#23

The British reconquered Georgia in 1780, and for a time it seemed as if the setbacks of the previous years had been put into reverse. The Johnstons enjoyed a period of upturn, and William recovered from a nervous complaint triggered by a dangerous ride to Augusta to deliver military intelligence.

#24

The American Revolution reached Virginia in 1780, and the colony was the center of another revolution, whose shock waves were felt hundreds of miles away. David George was one of the twenty thousand black participants in this revolution.

#25

David was a slave who escaped to the Georgia border in his twenties. He worked for two years for a kind master, until his master tracked him down and brought him back. He was baptized into the Baptist faith by a black preacher, and began to lead prayers at Silver Bluff.

#26

The British military did not get off to a good start in Virginia. The governor, John Murray, fourth Earl of Dunmore, was autocratic and self-interested. He also seemed to be encouraging an insurrection among the slaves by putting guns in their hands.

#27

The British proclamation that all indented Servants, Negroes, or Others (appertaining to Rebels) free, willing and able to bear Arms, joining His Majesty’s Troops, as soon as may be, had a huge impact on the American colonies.

#28

The Dunmore proclamation, which invited African Americans to join the British, dramatically changed the character and material strength of loyalist support for the British.

#29

By 1781, the British army’s mass liberation of slaves had come to look more strategically necessary than ever. The men labored through the heat to dig fortifications around the new post of Yorktown, which was surrounded by French and American soldiers two weeks later.

#30

The British surrender at Yorktown was signed on October 19, 1781. It was the anniversary of the Battle of Saratoga, and Cornwallis sent a messenger with a flag of truce to negotiate his surrender to George Washington and his French allies.

#31

Lord Cornwallis’s surrender at Yorktown was the end of the war, but the conflict between America and Britain continued beyond that. The war between Lord Cornwallis and George Washington was not over, nor was Joseph Brant’s.

#32

After Yorktown, it took a year for the British and American negotiators to work out a preliminary peace treaty, and another year until a definitive peace was signed and British troops evacuated. For loyalists, these years of peacemaking were just as stressful as the years of war.

#33

The American Revolution was ultimately brought to an end in London by the new prime minister, William Petty, Earl of Shelburne, who acknowledged American independence in June 1782. This concession made sense from a British perspective, because the future of the thirteen colonies was only part of a larger strategic picture involving France and Spain.

#34

The British had to figure out how to phase out their physical presence in North America. The cities that they held, as well as the sixty thousand loyalists and slaves under their protection, had to be taken into account.

#35

Carleton was a creation of the British Atlantic world, and his experiences in North America shaped the attitudes he brought to his later career. He served as imperial governor and brigadier general in Quebec, and he supported the French systems in place of British laws and institutions.

#36

The American colonies were also unhappy with the Quebec Act, as it did not give them the same rights as the French Canadians.

#37