Liberty's Exiles

American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World

By: Maya Jasanoff

Narrated by: L. J. Ganser

National Book Critics Circle Award, Nonfiction, 2012

After the American Revolution, 60,000 British loyalists fled the U.S. for Canada, the Caribbean, India, and other points abroad. Jasanoff traces their harrowing journeys across the globe, shedding light on their ambitions, the post-revolutionary world they encountered, and their legacies.

©2011 Maya Jasanoff (P)2012 Recorded Books

Outstanding, Detailed, Broad in Scope and finely written.

The economic primacy of the sugar plantations with the horrible conditions is rarely appreciated by modern Americans or Britains. The 13 rebellious colonies main value to Britain in 1776 was as a food supplier to the sugar colonies. Parliament understood Jamaica and Barbados as 40 of their members made their fortunes in those islands. Parliament understood the East India Company as 40 percent of the members owned stock in the company. Parliament did not understand the 13 rebel colonies as only a few had been there in military service. This fine book truly educates the reader regarding the lives and circumstances of the Loyalists during and after the American Revolution. I greatly appreciate the remarkable effort to create such a fine work.

America's First Civil War

What did you love best about Liberty's Exiles?

Maya Jasanoff's narrative on what might be thought of as America's first civil war — the Revolution — is an engaging and comprehensive account of Americans who remained loyal to Britain and their postwar efforts to reclaim their lives in Canada, the Caribbean, India, Africa, and other parts of the British Empire. The narrator, L.J. Ganzer, does an able job, but because the author is female I think the narrator should have been female too.

The thoroughness

Well researched and written. Very interesting interpretation of the American Revolution which she sees as a civil war with loyalists as victims.

Excellent

I have listened twice now and I purchased the book. Excellent information captured a piece of forgotten history.

Liberty's exiles

I have read other books on the loyalist of the American Revolution , however I have never read or heard of a book where the loyalists are treated as a Diaspora . I have heard of loyalists who have gone to Britain or other places of the globe but never treated as a group. Good read.