Loyalist Conscience
Subtitle: Principled Opposition to the American Revolution
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781476672458
Subjects: United states, history, revolution, 1775-1783
Description: "Freedom of speech was restricted during the Revolutionary War. In the struggle for independence, those who remained loyal to the British crown were persecuted. Loyalist Americans from all walks of life were branded as traitors and enemies. By the end of the war, 80,000 had fled their homeland to face a dismal exile from which few returned"--