The American Revolution did more than create the United States. Indigenous nations and their homelands, as well as Loyalists who fled to British provinces beyond the rebelling states, shaped how the revolution and its aftermath reimagined borders, boundaries, and identities in northern North America. This talk will illuminate what American independence could and could not achieve by exploring the limits of the Revolution and the resistance Patriots faced.
Jeffers Lennox is Professor of History at Wesleyan University. He teaches broadly on early North America, including settler-Indigenous interactions, treaties, and resistance movements. His most recent book is North of America: Loyalists, Indigenous Nations, and the Borders of the Long American Revolution (Yale, 2022).
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