Loyalists
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Attended with Disagreeable Consequences: Cross-Border Shopping for Loyalist Provisions, 1783–1784
In the months following the end of the American Revolutionary War, British authorities in Canada desperately required supplies for refugee Loyalists slated to be resettled in that northern colony. The cross-border market that they targeted to meet these supply demands was ironic. They looked southward to a region of the United States that, during the […]
