The great majority were neutral or Loyalist. For black people, what mattered most was freedom. As the Revolutionary War spread through every region, those in bondage sided with whichever army ...

ISBN: 0786448156. Although the proportion is likely exaggerated, it has traditionally been believed that about a third of the people of the Thirteen Colonies during the Revolutionary War were “Tories” ...

Unlike the Continental Army, the Navy recruited both free and enslaved blacks from the very start of the Revolutionary War -- partly out ... other enslaved to loyalist masters, and still others ...

It’s 1775 and the Revolutionary War is ... various family members and the way the war divided them. David Bush (1733-1797) was arrested as a suspected Loyalist, a charge never proven.