"The Unnatural Rebellion of This Country": The American Revolution, Loyalism, and Enduring Anglo-Atlantic Identities

[...]since neither Great Britain nor the United States intended to offer runaway slaves and Iroquois warriors the full rights of citizenship, it seems as though the continuum persisted for these peoples at the same time that it became a dichotomy for Euro-Americans. [...]all four books remind us that eighteenthand nineteenth-century Britain exerted an almost irresistible gravitational pull that caught many peoples in its orbit. [...]African-American novelists, American children, and transatlantic actors were unable to escape the pull of British hegemony-even as they sought to forge their own place in the world.