February 14, 2011

Book Review: Liberty's Exiles

Reviewed by Billy Heller
New York Post
February 13, 2011

Eric Holder is from The Bahamas. Was his family monarchists?

Liberty’s Exiles
by Maya Jasanoff (Knopf)

What if you came out on the wrong side of the revolution — the American Revolution? You might, Harvard historian Jasanoff tells us, have ended up in 18th century Nova Scotia, Jamaica, the Bahamas or Sierra Leone. That’s what happened not only to thousands of loyalist soldiers and businessmen but also to many Native Americans and African-Americans. The opportunities depended greatly on personal fortune and social class. For the impoverished, the struggle could be fierce, as it was for African settlers who were attacked in Sierra Leone’s capital, Freetown.

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