48 pages 1 hour read

Maya Jasanoff

Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

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Essay Topics

1.

Compare and contrast the concepts of the “spirit of 1776” and the “spirit of 1783” discussed in this book.

2.

In what ways did the experiences of Black loyalist refugees differ from those of their white counterparts?

3.

The British Proclamation of 1763 banned Americans from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains. While the Proclamation suggests British benevolence toward Native Americans, it also had other political motivations. Research between one and three of those alternative motivations, and address whether Jasanoff’s book adequately accounts for them.