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Loyalists

by Carole Watterson Troxler, 2006

Black Sailor's portrait painted during the American Revolution.

Additional research provided by Laura Morgan.

See also: Act of Pardon and Oblivion; Brown's Marsh, Battle of; Highland Regiment, North Carolina; Lindley's Mill, Battle of; Llewelyn Conspiracy; Moore's Creek Bridge, Battle of.

Part 1: Introduction; Part 2: Loyalists' Role in the War; Part 3: African American Loyalists; Part 4: Loyalist Fate at War's End; Part 5: References

Part 5: References

Wallace Brown, The King's Friends: The Composition and Motives of the American Loyalist Claimants (1965).

Jeffrey J. Crow, The Black Experience in Revolutionary North Carolina (1977).

Robert O. DeMond, The Loyalists in North Carolina during the Revolution (1964).

John Hairr, Colonel David Fanning: The Adventures of a Carolina Loyalist (2000).

Carole Watterson Troxler, The Loyalist Experience in North Carolina (1976).

 

 

 

Image Credit:

Black Sailor's portrait painted during the American Revolution.  Portrait by unknown artist, c. 1780. Original in the Newport Historical Society. Image courtesy of Learn NC. Available from http://www.learnnc.org/lp/multimedia/10712 (accessed May 14, 2012).

Subjects: 
American Revolution (1763-1789)
Political movements and parties
UNC Press
Authors: 
Morgan, Laura
From: 
Encyclopedia of North Carolina, University of North Carolina Press.

1 January 2006 | Morgan, Laura

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