Brendan McConville, State University of New York at Binghamton | Loyal to the End | The William and Mary Quarterly, 59.4

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Loyal to the End

So Obstinately Loyal: James Moody, 1744–1809. By SUSAN BURGESS SHENSTONE . (Montreal, Que.: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2000 . Pp. xiv, 340 . $ 39.95 .)

Reviewed by Brendan McConville, State University of New York at Binghamton

While recent years have seen a massive increase in studies of the post-revolutionary period, the activities of one group of Americans, the loyalists, have remained largely unexplored. That seems appropriate, since loyalists played no active part in the creation of an American identity after 1783. Some went into exile, and those who stayed in the new nation sought only to forget the past. But the loyalists have much to tell us about the late eighteenth century. Examination of the origins of their costly allegiance and of the values that shaped the communities they went on to found in Canada can reveal much about the varieties of thought and feeling in the first British empire. James Moody, a New Jersey native who fought on the British side, was one prominent loyalist who opted for a new life in Nova Scotia at the war's end, and although the account of his life given in Susan Shenstone's So Obstinately Loyal only touches the broader issues raised by his particular biography, it does suggest the possibilities inherent in renewed study of the loyalists. . . .

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