From the Publisher
NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER
This groundbreaking book offers the first global history of the
loyalist exodus to Canada, the Caribbean, Sierra Leone, India, and
beyond.
At the end of the American Revolution, sixty thousand
Americans loyal to the British cause fled the United States and
became refugees throughout the British Empire. Liberty's
Exiles tells their story. This surprising new 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.
About the Author
Maya Jasanoff was educated at Harvard, Cambridge, and Yale, and is
currently a professor of history at Harvard University. Her first
book, Edge of Empire: Lives, Culture, and Conquest in the East,
1750-1850, was awarded the 2005 Duff Cooper Prize and was a
book of the year selection in numerous publications including
The Economist, The Guardian, and The Sunday
Times (London). She has recently been a fellow of the New York
Public Library, the Library of Congress, and the American Council
of Learned Societies and has contributed essays to the London
Review of Books, The New York Times Magazine, and
The New York Review of Books.
Format: Trade Paperback
Published: March 6, 2012
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Language: English
The following ISBNs are associated with this title:
ISBN - 10: 1400075475
ISBN - 13: 9781400075478
