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Scholars build on Calhoons work and consider Loyalisms relationship to conflict resolution, imperial bureaucracy, and identity creation
Since the 1970s scholars have regarded Robert M. Calhoon as an invigorating and definitive force when it comes to the study of American Loyalism. His decades-long work redefined the Loyalists role in the American Revolution from being portrayed as static characters opposing change to being seen eventually as reactionary actors adapting to a society in upheaval. Loyalists were central to the Revolution, and Calhoon and these authors argue that they were not so different in ideology from their Patriot neighborsexcept occasionally when they were.
The Consequences of Loyalism, Rebecca Brannon and Joseph S. Moore seek to provide an understanding of Calhoons foundational influence and the development continuing in the wake of his prolific career. This volume unites sixteen previously unpublished essays that build on Calhoons work and consider Loyalisms relationship to conflict resolution, imperial bureaucracy, and identity creation. In the first of two sections, established and rising scholars discuss the complexities of Loyalist identity, while considering Calhoons earlier work. In the second section, scholars work from Calhoons later publications to investigate Loyalism in terms of the consequences of Loyalism for the Loyalists, and for the legacy of the Revolutionary War.
The Consequences of Loyalism offers a bold, new reinterpretation of Loyalism. This book brings Loyalist dilemmas alive, digging into their personalities and postwar routes. The essays discuss not only Loyalists experiences during the Revolution, but also their coping and even reintegration in the aftermath. Loyalists from all facets of society fought for what they considered their home country: women wrote letters, commanders took to the battlefield, and thinkers shaped the political conversation. This volume complements Calhoons influential work, expands the scope of Loyalist studies, and opens the field to a deeper, perhaps revolutionary understanding of the kings men.
Since the 1970s scholars have regarded Robert M. Calhoon as an invigorating and definitive force when it comes to the study of American Loyalism. His decades-long work redefined the Loyalists role in the American Revolution from being portrayed as static characters opposing change to being seen eventually as reactionary actors adapting to a society in upheaval. Loyalists were central to the Revolution, and Calhoon and these authors argue that they were not so different in ideology from their Patriot neighborsexcept occasionally when they were.
The Consequences of Loyalism, Rebecca Brannon and Joseph S. Moore seek to provide an understanding of Calhoons foundational influence and the development continuing in the wake of his prolific career. This volume unites sixteen previously unpublished essays that build on Calhoons work and consider Loyalisms relationship to conflict resolution, imperial bureaucracy, and identity creation. In the first of two sections, established and rising scholars discuss the complexities of Loyalist identity, while considering Calhoons earlier work. In the second section, scholars work from Calhoons later publications to investigate Loyalism in terms of the consequences of Loyalism for the Loyalists, and for the legacy of the Revolutionary War.
The Consequences of Loyalism offers a bold, new reinterpretation of Loyalism. This book brings Loyalist dilemmas alive, digging into their personalities and postwar routes. The essays discuss not only Loyalists experiences during the Revolution, but also their coping and even reintegration in the aftermath. Loyalists from all facets of society fought for what they considered their home country: women wrote letters, commanders took to the battlefield, and thinkers shaped the political conversation. This volume complements Calhoons influential work, expands the scope of Loyalist studies, and opens the field to a deeper, perhaps revolutionary understanding of the kings men.
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The Consequences of Loyalism
The CONSEQUENCES of
LOYALISM
LOYALISM
Essays in Honor of Robert M. Calhoon
Edited by
REBECCA BRANNON and JOSEPH S. MOORE
The University of South Carolina Press
2019 University of South Carolina
Published by the University of South Carolina Press
Columbia, South Carolina 29208
www.sc.edu/uscpress
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
can be found at http://catalog.loc.gov/.
ISBN 978-1-61117-950-7 (hardcover)
ISBN 978-1-61117-951-4 (ebook)
For Robert M. Calhoon
a generous scholar, collaborator, and mentor
a generous scholar, collaborator, and mentor
Contents
Joseph S. Moore
Rebecca Brannon
Taylor Stoermer
Christopher F. Minty
Kacy Tillman
Christopher Sparshott
Carole W. Troxler
C. L. Bragg
Bonnie Huskins
Catherine M. A. Cottreau-Robins
Sally E. Hadden
Gregory T. Knouff
Brett Palfreyman
Aaron Nathan Coleman
Rebecca Brannon
Eileen Ka-May Cheng
Ruma Chopra
Warren R. Hofstra
List of Illustrations
JOSEPH S. MOORE
Preface
Youre not going to work on the Loyalists. Nobody does the Loyalists anymore.
Thus began the first conversation with my doctoral mentor in 2005. I had moved to North Carolina to work with Robert M. Bob Calhoon, whose seminal book The Loyalists in Revolutionary America (1973) reshaped the study of Loyalist ideology. He had agreed to take one last doctoral student, and I was that student. I now had no idea why.
Bob had read my application closely. He rightly determined that I was not nearly as well equipped to reexamine Loyalist ideologies as I was the mixture of religion, race, and transatlantic communities inhabiting the southern backcountry that happened to include some Loyalists. Unbeknownst to me, sitting on his desk at the time was a note to coordinate funding for a doctoral dissertation on a virtually unknown antislavery group in backcountry South Carolina who fit that bill. When he read my application, he later told me, I took the note, crumpled it up, and threw it in the wastebasket. This was why he had accepted that last doctoral student. Bob sent me on a journey for which I will be forever grateful, away from the Loyalists and toward the antislavery southern moderates who dominated the next decade of my intellectual life.
Later Bob admitted that he was, if not lying, at least protecting me from the hard truth. There were too many people who were too far ahead of you, he said, and they were all really, really good. As his bibliographical essay in Tory Insurgents (2010) made clear, Bob kept abreast of every word written on the subject; he was aware of, excited about, and encouraging toward an emerging wave of scholarship on the Revolutionary Loyalists he felt would form the new consensus to replace his. He understood the time was right for books that moved in different directions than his ideological tome had taken. The surest sign you had done something right was that the field needed to move past your questions to answer different ones; he felt good about handing the baton to the bevy of scholars who were doing just that.
Time quickly proved Bob right. In short order the works he referenced materialized, and they have reshaped Loyalist scholarship as he predicted they would. Jim Piecuchs Three Peoples, One King (2008), Ruma Chopras Unnatural Rebellion (2011), and Maya Jasanoffs Libertys Exiles (2011) each arrived as Bob supervised my dissertation. Two other dissertations, by Rebecca Brannon and Aaron Nathan Coleman, had him particularly sure that all the good ground was being covered.
If Loyalist scholarship sprang off of and moved beyond Bobs work, so did he. For nearly forty years after 1973 he groped for what might be described as Loyalisms missing ideological link. Following Bobs lead, scholars now note the striking similarities between the kings friends and their Patriot antagonists. He was certain that these enemies did, at times, sense the opportunity and danger in each others closeness. His forays through the 1980s and 1990s into American religious history provided close but still unsatisfying answers. Finally he struck upon the idea of historic moderation, not a trimming of sails or avoidance of conflict but principled partisanship wise enough to fear its own excess. A blend of classicism and Calvinism, historic moderation was Bobs best way to understand the tortured sense of history that kept some committed Loyalists and Whigs humble about their own commitments, careful about the alienation of enemies, and fearful of their own allies. Such beliefs might help explain why certain Patriots and Loyalists at times resembled each other more than their own side. Bob summarized this concept as humility in the face of the past in Political Moderation in Americas First Two Centuries (2009).
This edited collection seeks to honor Calhoon and the themes that emerged in his fifty-year career. Ideology (which he labeled perceptions), religion, the backcountry, and moderation shaped the four waves of his writing. But embedded in each was Bobs refusal to take part in the intellectual balkanization of scholarly discourse that seemed to grow inexorably during his tenure as the dean of American Loyalist studies. A promiscuous reader of social science theory, he was never afraid to utilize innovations in other disciplines to reimagine past societies. Aaron Nathan Coleman and Rebecca Brannons engagement with systems of transitional justice were just the kind of cross-disciplinary work he applauded. In honor of Bobs career trajectory, this book is broken into two sections. Perceptions evokes his concern with Loyalist ideologies and conceptions of self, while Moderation probes the depths of what it meant to resolve conflicted identities in the wake of unfathomable trouble and loss. Within each section are explorations of religion, gender, race, refugee status, memory, and geography that inform our conversations anew and would delight him.
This book honors Bobs career in another way by celebrating his generosity of spirit to generations of young scholars trying to make their way in conferences, journals, books, fellowships, and tenure applications. Early in his career, Bob passed up the opportunity to leave his adopted North Carolina home and take on doctoral students at the University of Connecticut. Not until the early twenty-first century did UNC-Greensboro begin admitting doctoral students; he officially oversaw just three dissertations. Bob filled this void with an inveterate encouragement of young Loyalist scholars across academia. Possessed of a curious mind coupled to an encyclopedic memory of the William and Mary Quarterly, he seems to know what everyone in the field is doing and to find it all endlessly inspiring. Bob loves the life of the mind, and he loves living it with others. This book says thank you for the cumulative effect of that scholarship, mentorship, and friendship in the best way we know how: by keeping the conversation going.
Acknowledgments
We thank the many scholars who collaborated on this project. The Ulster American Heritage Symposium sponsored and the University of Georgia hosted a panel where many of the contributors here made contact and the idea for a common understanding of this nature first took form. From there we recruited contributors whose work supported this vision, and we thank them for their willingness to come on board. Joseph especially thanks Rebecca for breathing new life into the project by transitioning from contributor to coeditor. Our families were very patient and forgiving in allowing us to pile one more project onto already overcrowded calendars. For that we thank Mary Julia, Charlotte, Joan, Seth, and Ziva.
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