JONATHAN ODELL: Loyalist Poet of the American Revolution

red cloth, gilt spine, pp., xv,205, 7 pp bibliography, index, much of New Brunswick interest Size: 8 Vo.,

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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.

Product Info

ISBN: 0822307162

ISBN-13: 9780822307167

Publisher: Duke Univ Pr

Year: 1987

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

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HarryEBagleyBooks

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Country: Canada