Books
The Maroons, a community of ex-slaves, were transported to three British colonies (Jamaica, Nova Scotia, and Sierra Leone) during the last years of the eighteenth century. They learned that freedom did not mean the same thing in every British territory. This book follows the Maroons’ odyssey - and their remarkable return home.
The American loyalists wanted to partner with the British government to defeat the American Patriots. But the British disappointed loyalist hopes for they saw their most ardent supporters only as Americans. This book describes the loyalist-British relationship during seven years of revolutionary war.
Loyalism, like revolution, was an Atlantic-wide phenomenon. African slaves and Native Americans in the thirteen colonies as well as white settlers in the Caribbean and in Canada supported empire over independence. Using letters, poems, wills, and other sources , this book examines their motives.