Written Assignment 2

Please read the following primary sources concerning the experiences of "Patriot" ("Rebels), "Loyalists ("Tories"), Native Americans, African Americans, and woman during the Revolutionary War.

First read this account by a Loyalist woman regarding the Iroquois.
Second, read this deposition by "Rebel" woman regarding her service in the Continental Army.
Third, read these two accounts by African American, one a "Rebel" and the other a "Loyalist".
Finally, read the two accounts of Revolutionary War veterans, who served in the army and the navy.

After reading these primary documents as well as the textbook and Course Lectures, compare and contrast the experiences of "Loyalists", "Rebels", slaves, and women during the Revolutionary War. How did these different groups view this conflict? Be sure to refer to the primary documents to illustrate and support your views.

Slaves

"Rebel against rebel": enslaved Virginians and the coming of the American Revolution
Enslaved black Virginians' efforts to seek freedom before the American Revolution helped motivate white Virginians to separate from Great Britain. Most slaves who turned to the British were killed in battle, died of disease, or remained in slavery under worse conditions, although a small percentage of blacks escaped to freedom. Blacks were also helped by Virginia's Governor John Murray, who first threatened to emancipate the colony's slaves and then did so in 1775.
Dirty little secret: to see the Revolutionary War through the eyes of slaves is to better understand why so many of them fought for the crown

Standing in Their Own Light: African American Patriots in the American Revolution by Judith L. Van Buskirk
Publication Date: 2017
Landmarks of the American Revolution by Gary B. Nash
Publication Date: 2003-06-12
Three Peoples, One King: Loyalists, Indians, and Slaves in the American Revolutionary South, 1775-1782 by Jim Piecuch
Publication Date: 2008

Women

Remembering the Ladies.
The article discusses the role of women as nurse, wife and mother at the military camp in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania wherein they earned rations and money by doing laundry and mending the clothes of the officers and men.

Landmarks of the American Revolution by Gary B. Nash
Publication Date: 2003-06-12
Whose American Revolution Was It? by Alfred F. Young; Gregory H. Nobles
Publication Date: 2011

Loyalists

Patrick Ferguson, the loyalists, and the american revolution
In popular imagination, the American Revolution was us (the Americans) against them (the British). However, there were about as many pro-British Loyalists as anti-British patriots, and the war was actually a civil war.
With Little Less Than Savage Fury.
America's first civil war took place during the Revolution, an ultra violent, family-splitting, and often vindictive conflict between patriots and loyalists

Eleven Exiles: Accounts of Loyalists of the American Revolution by Phyllis R. Blakeley (Editor); John Grant (Editor)
Publication Date: 1982
The loyalists of Massachusetts and the other side of the American Revolution by Stark, James Henry
Publication Date: 1910
Landmarks of the American Revolution by Gary B. Nash
Publication Date: 2003-06-12
Three Peoples, One King: Loyalists, Indians, and Slaves in the American Revolutionary South, 1775-1782 by Jim Piecuch
Publication Date: 2008

Rebels

With Little Less Than Savage Fury.
America's first civil war took place during the Revolution, an ultra violent, family-splitting, and often vindictive conflict between patriots and loyalists

Standing in Their Own Light: African American Patriots in the American Revolution by Judith L. Van Buskirk
Publication Date: 2017
Landmarks of the American Revolution by Gary B. Nash
Publication Date: 2003-06-12

Native Americans

Three Peoples, One King: Loyalists, Indians, and Slaves in the American Revolutionary South, 1775-1782 by Jim Piecuch
Publication Date: 2008
Landmarks of the American Revolution by Gary B. Nash
Publication Date: 2003-06-12
The American Revolution in Indian Country: Crisis and Diversity in Native American Communities by Colin G. Calloway
Publication Date: 1995

History 2010 - Toye (NeSCC): Written Assignment 2