Loyalist (pro-British) during the Revolutionary War
- Topic selection: Loyalist (pro-British) during the Revolutionary War
- Based on your topic selection, identify TWO primary sources you plan to incorporate. List them in Chicago/Turabian format. Provide a brief explanation as to how the selected sources align with your chosen topic. There is plenty of primary source material within the textbook to support topic selections.
EXAMPLE: Jacob, Harriet. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Seven Years Concealed. (Boston: published for the author, 1861, ch. 5), quoted in Ellen Carol DuBois, Through Women’s Eyes: An American History (Boston: Bedford / St. Martin’s, 2012), 216-7.
Source 1
Citation: Linda K. Kerber, Women of the Republic: Intellect and Ideology in Revolutionary America (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1980)
Explanation: Contains information from wives of British Loyalists, both patriot or loyalist themselves. Also contains accounts of loyalist spies
Source 2
Citation: Catherine Van Cortlandt, “Secret Correspondence of a Loyalist Wife,” in Robert Marcus and David Burner, ed,. American Firsthand, 4th ed. (Boston: Bedford, 1997)
Explanation: The correspondence between a loyalist and her husband.
- Working thesis statement: Please identify the historical claim you plan to support throughout the body of your essay.
For instance, “following the American Revolution African American women experienced gradual emancipation in northern states and deepening degradation in Southern states as slavery, paradoxically, solidified itself as a fruit of victory.”
Keep in mind, this is simply a “working” thesis. That is, as composition occurs the
thesis will likely evolve.
