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“A smart, deeply researched and elegantly written history.” —New York Times Book Review
This surprising account of the founding of the United States and the shaping of the post-revolutionary world traces extraordinary journeys like the one of Elizabeth Johnston, a young mother from Georgia, who led her growing family to Britain, Jamaica, and Canada, questing for a home; black loyalists such as David George, who escaped from slavery in Virginia and went on to found Baptist congregations in Nova Scotia and Sierra Leone; and Mohawk Indian leader Joseph Brant, who tried to find autonomy for his people in Ontario.
Ambitious, original, and personality-filled, this book is at once an intimate narrative history and a provocative analysis that changes how we see the revolution’s “losers” and their legacies.
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Kindle Book
- Release date: February 15, 2011
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- ISBN: 9780307595300
- Release date: February 15, 2011
EPUB ebook
- ISBN: 9780307595300
- File size: 9531 KB
- Release date: February 15, 2011
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