In the months following the 1780 capture of Charleston, South Carolina, British soldiers arrested 63 paroled American prisoners and transported them to St. Augustine, East Florida. James Waring McCrady and C. L. Bragg chronicle the banishment of these elite southerners, and the plight of the enslaved men and women who accompanied them.
In this first comprehensive examination and narrative history of these patriots, McCrady and Bragg reveal how the exiles navigated their new surroundings within the context of a revolutionary conflict that involved various imperial powers of the Old World--Britain, France, and Spain--and American colonists seeking to create an independent nation.
