Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World

Maya Jasanoff follows sixty thousand American Loyalists who fled the new United States after the Revolution, tracking them to Canada, the Bahamas, Sierra Leone, and India. Her global history reveals a counter-narrative to American founding mythology, showing how the Revolution produced a massive refugee crisis whose consequences shaped the British Empire. The book won the Bancroft Prize and the NBCC Award for Nonfiction.