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Title: Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 104 December 1901 to May 1902
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: various
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Publisher: New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University-Idaho

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n birth andbreeding. Thousands upon thousandscrowded to New York to seek the shelterof the British arms. It was the twenty-fifth of November, 1783, before Sir GuyCarleton could effect the final evacuationof the city, so great and so troublesomewas the pitiful company of refugees forwhich he felt himself obliged in merecompassion to provide protection andtransportation. More than twenty-ninethousand refugees (including three thou-sand negroes) left the state of New Yorkalone, for Canada, during that confusedand anxious year 1783. Most of these had taken no active partin the struggle which had rendered themhomeless. Almost without exception theyhad been, in opinion, as thoroughly op-posed as their neighbors to the policy ofthe king and Parliament towards thecolonies. But they had not been willingto go the ugly length of rebellion and offinal separation from England. When itcame to the final breach, some of themhad become not merely passive but activeopponents of revolution and independ-
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110 HARPERS MONTHLY MAGAZINE.

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