Jonathan Odell, Loyalist Poet of the American RevolutionDuke University Press, 1987 - 205 páginas Jonathan Odell's live and writings give us insight into the American Revolution by revealing Loyalist ideology—the ambitious few have led the gullible multitude to slaughter—and he rails against the British military for fighting a war of containment aimed at bringing the rebel leadership to negotiation. This policy effectually trapped the Loyalists between the British army, which ignored them, and the rebels, who despised them. One of the best-educated of the colonialists, Odell, a physician turned Anglican minister and then writer, lived the gamut of experience: powerful friends sustained him and the British commanders-in-chief Sir William Howe, Henry Clinton, and Sir Guy Carleton employed him; nevertheless, during the war he was a lonely exile ("Tory hunters" forced him from his home in 1775), and, at the end of the war, when his hope for reconciliation between the Loyalists and the Americans came to nothing, he reluctantly emigrated to Canada. Here is a voice, all but silenced for over two hundred years, that must now be heard if we are to better understand the American Revolution. |
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Jonathan Odell, Loyalist Poet of the American Revolution Cynthia Dubin Edelberg Vista de fragmentos - 1987 |
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American Revolution Anderson André Anglican minister appointed arms Arnold Augustan authority Batwell Benedict Arnold bishop Boston Britain Britannicus Britannicus essay British army British regulars Brunswick Burlington Cafferty Church in Burlington colonies colonists command Continental army Continental Congress d'Estaing Delaware Donop enemies England Episcopate fleet force France Freneau G. P. Putnam's Sons George Hessians Howe's Ibid issue Jersey John John André Jonathan Boucher Jonathan Odell king land letter London Loyal Verses Loyalist Claims Commission Loyalist ideology Loyalist Rhapsodies M'Fingal Margaret Morris Mischianza negotiate Nova Scotia Odell Papers Odell wrote Odell's Parliament peace Pennsylvania Philadelphia Poems of Odell political printed prisoner Province Puff Rebellion rebels reconciliation Refugee Revolutionary Rivington Royal Gazette Sargent secretary Sir Guy Carleton Society Song Stansbury Thomas thousand tion Tory hunters Town troops University Press Vice Admiralty courts wanted Washington West Point Whigs William Franklin William Franklin Odell Yorick York
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