Historians since 1776 have searched in vain for reasons to explain why one colonist would chose the Patriots’ cause and another the Loyalists’ cause. The choice was not due to “a person’s ...

Had George Washington been less ambivalent, more blacks might have participated on the Patriot side than with the Loyalists. When he took command of the Continental Army in 1775, Washington barred ...

It was a turning point, I think, between enslaved people and their owners, and a turning point in the relationship between their owners, be those owners Loyalist or Patriot, and the British.