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Part i: Introduction; Part ii: Loyalists' Role in the War; Part iii: African American Loyalists; Part iv: Loyalist Fate at War's End; Part v: References

See also: Act of Pardon and Oblivion; Brown's Marsh, Battle of; Highland Regiment, North Carolina; Lindley's Mill, Battle of; Llewelyn Conspiracy; Moore's Creek Bridge, Battle of.

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Gilbert, Alan. Black Patriots and Loyalists: Fighting for Emancipation in the War for Independence. University of Chicago Press. 2012.

Hairr, John. Colonel David Fanning: The Adventures of a Carolina Loyalist. 2000.

Hodges, Graham Russell Gao and Alan Edward Brown, eds. The Book of Negroes : African Americans in Exile After the American Revolution. Fordham University Press, 2021.

MacKinnon, Neil.  This Unfriendly Soil : The Loyalist Experience in Nova Scotia 1783-1791. McGill-Queen's University Press, 1986.

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St. G. Walker, James W. "Blacks as American Loyalists: The Slaves' War for Independence." Historical Reflections / Réflexions Historiques 2, no. 1 (1975): 51-67.

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Citation

Morgan, Laura and Carole W. Troxler. "Loyalists in North Carolina." NCpedia. Library of NC. 2006.