Thursday, December 5, 2013

Updates and Additions

George Washington's slave - Henry?

Neutralists treated as Loyalists

Tory vs. Loyalist

Violence against Loyalists and the stifling effect on numbers

Black loyalists in Virginia served in the military, but in New York were treated as slave labor

British government saw freedom as a sufficient prize to slaves and offered no monetary reward for service rendered during the war

Occasional executions, tortures, tarring and feathering, family harassment, destruction of private property, etc


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