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Library Journal - Audio This comprehensive, engaging work examines the Loyalists, those on the losing side of the American Revolution. While some readers may associate the term Loyalist with images of affluent white Englishmen, Jasanoff (history, Harvard Univ.) points out that they were in fact a multiethnic group that included African Americans and Native Americans. After the war, many of those still loyal to the Crown left the Colonies and fled around the world to places where British rule still prevailed. The personal stories of these refugees are the most poignant part of this study. Readers travel with the exiles forced to flee their homes, leaving everything behind and struggling to remake their lives in such diverse locations as Quebec, Jamaica, and India.