Library

Browse and search novels

1 novel found

Free Exiles: the Lost America and the Return of the British Empire (2 Volumes in Total) (thorne Series)

(u. S.) Maya Jasanoff

299K0

One day in November 1783, the last British troops withdrew from New York City, and British rule over the United States ended. Worried, some 60,000 loyalists decided to leave their homes and go into exile, rebuilding their shattered lives in other parts of the British Empire. They sailed across the sea to England, Canada, Jamaica and the Bahamas; some as far away as Sierra Leone and India. No matter where they go, leaving the United States is a new beginning. This voyage will take them to a new world full of life and unknown. Free Exiles tells the first story of this extraordinary global exodus - the widest refugee crisis the UK has ever faced.