Author : Chaim M. Rosenberg
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476672458
The Loyalist Conscience by Chaim M. Rosenberg Pdf
Freedom of speech was restricted during the Revolutionary War. In the great struggle for independence, those who remained loyal to the British crown were persecuted with loss of employment, eviction from their homes, heavy taxation, confiscation of property and imprisonment. Loyalist Americans from all walks of life were branded as traitors and enemies of the people. By the end of the war, 80,000 had fled their homeland to face a dismal exile from which few would return, outcasts of a new republic based on democratic values of liberty, equality and justice.