THE OTHER LOYALISTS: ORDINARY PEOPLE, ROYALISM, AND THE REVOLUTION IN THE MIDDLE COLONIES, 1763-1787.

Albany: State University of New York, 2009. 210 pp, 9 1/4" H. B&w illustrations. "In this book we meet for the first time the ordinary people of the Middle Colonies who remained loyal to Britain during the American Revolution. The first important new scholarship in decades, these essays uncover the reasons why middle- and lower-class citizens chose to become Loyalists, how they participated in and endured the Revolution, and what happened to them because of their defeat. In unprecedented clarity we are allowed to see the tragedy, violence, and suffering of places such as the lower Delaware and Hudson valleys, the Delmarva Peninsula, western Pennsylvania, and northern Virginia. (It) fills an important void in our understanding of the American Revolution, reminding us that not all Loyalists were members of the elite and that their motivations were a complicated medley of political beliefs, religious convictions, and self-interest." Chapter headings: "The Ghost of Clow": Loyalist Insurgency in the Delmarva Peninsula; "Loyalty Is Now Bleeding in New Jersey": Motivations and Mentalities of the Disaffected; Black Loyalists and African American Allegiance in the Mid-Hudson Valley; Northern Virginia's Quakers and the War for Independence: Negotiating a Path of Virtue in a Revolutionary World; "Faithful Allies of the King": The Crown's Haudenosaunee Allies in the Revolutionary Struggle for New York; The Ordeal of John Connolly: The Pursuit of Wealth through Loyalism; From Revolutionary to Traitor: The American Career of Herman Zedtwitz. Dust jacket has very light rubbing.. Not Signed. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good+.