| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 107.4

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Leslie Hall. Land and Allegiance in Revolutionary Georgia. Athens: University of Georgia Press. 2001. Pp. xvi, 231. $45.00.

Leslie Hall has approached the revolution in Georgia from the perspective of property ownership. As Hall points out, revolutionary ideology, resentment of parliamentary taxation, and suspicion of standing armies was far less deep-rooted in the southernmost colony than elsewhere. Indeed, there were positive reasons for remaining loyal. Parliamentary subventions, to a colony almost devoid of specie, kept civil government afloat and the local currency buoyant. A tiny slave-holding population, land hungry but close to much larger populations of Creeks and Cherokees, could see positive advantages in a garrison of British regulars. As a result, revolution came late to Georgia and was embraced with reluctance. Even then, successive changes of regime in 1775, 1779, and 1782 encouraged men to use pledges of allegiance as a means of retaining their property. In this way, allegiance became a kind of currency rather than a serious commitment to one side or the other. There were committed rebels and committed loyalists, but for most Georgians the main aim was to protect their economic interests, and for many this meant land and slaves. This is a sound, if unsurprising, argument, and Hall makes the case in a solid and workmanlike manner. . . .

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