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Contents

Preface

Abbreviations and Acronyms

Introduction: Provincial South Carolina

Part I: Revolution: The Isolation of the Loyalists, 1760-1780

• 1. The Quarrel over American Rights
• 2. "The Troubles" Begin
• 3. Exile and Accommodation, 1776–1779
• 4. The Road Back: The Rebels at Bay, 1779–1780

Part II: Restoring British Authority: The Loyalist Response, 1780–1781

• 5. Plans and Personnel
• 6. Pacifying the Interior
• 7. The "Second Revolution," Midsummer 1780
• 8. Kings Mountain, October 1780
• 9. Provincials, Militia, and Dragoons
• 10. Retreat from the Interior, 1781

Part III: A War of All the People, 1780–1782

• 11. Occupied Charlestown
• 12. Loyalists and Rebels: The Civil War
• 13. War of Attrition: Loyalist Military Action, 1782
• 14. Displaced Persons and Pawns of War: Loyalist Refugees and Black Slaves, 1781–1782

Part IV: The Loyalist Experience after the War

• 15. British Evacuation of South Carolina
• 16. Dispersal of the Loyalists
• 17. Retribution and Reconciliation: The Loyalists in Postwar South Carolina

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index