Loyalists and Community in North America

ROBERT M. CALHOON is Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.TIMOTHY M. BARNES is Associate Professor of History at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo.GEORGE A. RAWLYK is Professor of History at Queen's University.

This is the first collection of Loyalist scholarship to span the 13 independent states and the Florida and Canadian provinces which remained loyal to the crown during the American Revolution.

This is the first collection of Loyalist scholarship to span the 13 independent states and the Florida and Canadian provinces which remained loyal to the crown during the American Revolution.

IntroductionLoyalists and Patriot Communities"King Mob" and the Rule of Law: Revolutionary Justice and the Suppression of Loyalism in Connecticut, 1774-1783 by David H. VillersConnecticut's Sandemanians: Loyalism as a Religious Test by Jean F. HankinsThe Maintenance of Revolutionary Consensus: Treatment of Tories in Southwestern Virginia, 1775-1783 by Albert H. Tillson, Jr."Little Bermuda": Loyalism on Daufuskie Island, South Carolina, 1775-1783 by Rebecca StarrThe Massachusetts Loyalists and the Problem of Amnesty, 1775-1790 by David E. MaasPatriots, Loyalists, and Conflict Resolution in New York, 1783-1787 by Joseph S. TiedemannGarrison Town CommunitiesThe Artisan Loyalists of Charleston, South Carolina by Kathryn Roe CokerJonathan Odell and Philip Freneau: Poetry and Politics in the Garrison Town of New York City by Cynthia D. EdelbergAllegiance without Community: East Florida as the Symbol of a Loyalist Contract in the South by Carole Watterson TroxlerLoyalist West Florida: An Ambiguous Community by Robin F.A. FabelDavid Fanning's Militia: A Roving Partisan Community by Lindley S. ButlerCanadian LoyalismThe Loyalist Community in New Brunswick by Ann Gorman CondonLoyalists and Community: The Eastern Ontario Loyalist Women by Janice Potter-MacKinnonCreating a British-American Political Community in Upper Canada by Jane Errington and G.A. RawlykThe Nova Scotia Loyalists: A Traumatic Community by Neil MacKinnon