From Revolution to Reunion: The Reintegration of the South Carolina Loyalists

Synopsis

The American Revolution Was A Vicious Civil War Fought Between Families And Neighbors. Nowhere Was This Truer Than In South Carolina. Yet, After The Revolution, South Carolina?s Victorious Patriots Offered Vanquished Loyalists A Prompt And Generous Legal And Social Reintegration. From Revolution To Reunion Investigates The Way In Which South Carolinians, Patriot And Loyalist, Managed To Reconcile Their Bitter Differences And Reunite To Heal South Carolina And Create A Stable Foundation For The New United States To Become A Political And Economic Leader. Rebecca Brannon Considers Rituals And Emotions, As Well As Historical Memory, To Produce A Complex And Nuanced Interpretation Of The Reconciliation Process In Post-revolutionary South Carolina, Detailing How Loyalists And Patriots Worked Together To Heal Their Society. She Frames The Process In A Larger Historical Context By Comparing South Carolina?s Experience With That Of Other States. The American Revolution: South Carolina's First Civil War -- 1782: The New State Government Confronts Its Loyalists -- Hope For Reconciliation: How Loyalists Built Their Case For Reintegration -- Uneasy Neighbors To Trusted Friends: How Loyalists And Their Allies Built Reconciliation -- (mis)remembering The Founding Moment: We Are All Patriots Now -- Epilogue: A Walk Through Historic Charleston. Rebecca Brannon. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 178-212) And Index.