Name: Charleston Loyalists: Treason and Survival in the American Revolution (en Inglés)
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Author: Coker, Kathy; Wetzel, Jason
ISBN: 9781467170734

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Charleston Loyalists: Treason and Survival in the American Revolution (en Inglés)

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Libro Físico

Editorial

History Press

Autor

Coker, Kathy; Wetzel, Jason

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

160

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN13

9781467170734

Charleston Loyalists: Treason and Survival in the American Revolution (en Inglés)

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Charleston, 1775-1783: where loyalty was as dangerous as rebellion.Revisit the Revolutionary War through the eyes of Charleston's most misunderstood figures, the Loyalists. Often erased from more traditional narratives, these men and women lived in the deadliest gray space of the war, where allegiance shifted by necessity, survival outweighed ideology, and every decision carried life-and-death consequences.Featuring more than eighty rare and striking historic images, this book reconstructs Charleston as a high-stakes garrison town: a city of spies, secret networks, and double agents--one operating directly under General Nathanael Greene himself. Drawn from newly examined primary sources and firsthand accounts, the story exposes the covert war beneath the battlefield, where Patriots and Loyalists often moved indistinguishably through the same streets, salons, and homes.Beyond the fighting, the narrative follows the war's long shadow into post-Revolutionary South Carolina, where confiscation, exile, and political vengeance threatened to tear the region apart. Why did iconic Patriot leaders like Henry Laurens, Francis Marion, and Nathanael Greene intervene to restore seized Loyalist estates? And how did those decisions quietly shape the foundation of reconciliation in the new republic?At the heart of the story are the women of Loyalist Charleston, forced out of the domestic sphere and into the raw machinery of power. Their petitions before the state legislature--pleas for property, protection, and survival.Authors Kathy Roe Coker and Jason Wetzel detail the these stories and more in a riveting account of loyalty and struggle.