“On November 25, 1783, the last British troops pulled out of New York City, bringing the American Revolution to an end.  But for tens of thousands of American loyalists, the British evacuation spelled worry, not jubilation. What would happen to them in the new United States? Would they and their families be safe? Facing grave doubts about their futures, some sixty thousand loyalists—one in forty members of the American population—decided to leave their homes and become refugees elsewhere in the British Empire. They sailed for Britain, for Canada, for Jamaica, and for the Bahamas; some ventured as far as Sierra Leone and India.”

http://isaacbrocksociety.ca/2013/08/09/meet-libertys-exiles-the-loyalists-in-the-revolution/

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