Chapter 5. “Executioners of Their Friends and Brethren”: Naval Impressment as an Atlantic Civil War

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction. Origins 1
4. Part I. Civil Wars: Challenging the Patriotic Narrative
5. Chapter 1. War Stories: Remembering and Forgetting the American Revolution 9
6. Chapter 2. The Intimacies of Occupation: Loyalties, Compromise, and Betrayal in Revolutionary-Era Newport 29
7. Chapter 3. Uncommon Cause: The Challenges of Disaffection in Revolutionary Pennsylvania 48
8. Chapter 4. Loyalism, Citizenship, American Identity: The Shoemaker Family 68
9. Chapter 5. “Executioners of Their Friends and Brethren”: Naval Impressment as an Atlantic Civil War 82
10. Part II. Wider Horizons: Decentering the Nationalistic Narrative
11. Chapter 6. British Union and American Revolution: Imperial Authority and the Multinational State 107
12. Chapter 7. Revisiting the Bishop Controversy 132
13. Chapter 8. Empire’s Vital Extremities: British Africa and the Coming of the American Revolution 150
14. Chapter 9. The Great Awakening, Presbyterian Education, and the Mobilization of Power in the Revolutionary Mid- Atlantic 168
15. Part III. New Directions
16. Chapter 10. “This Is the Skin of a Whit[e] Man”: Material Memories of Violence in Sullivan’s Campaign 187
17. Chapter 11. Environmental History and the War of Independence: Saltpeter and the Continental Army’s Shortage of Gunpowder 205
18. Chapter 12. The Problem of Order and the Transfer of Slave Property in the Revolutionary South 231
19. Part IV. Legacies: The Afterlife of the American Revolution
20. Chapter 13. The United States and the Transformation of Transatlantic Migration During the Age of Revolution and Emancipation 251
21. Chapter 14. First Partition: The Troubled Origins of the Mason-Dixon Line 270
22. Chapter 15. The Power to Be Reborn 289
23. Conclusion. Beyond the Rebirth of the Revolution: Coming to Terms with Coming of Age 300
24. Notes 319
25. List of Contributors 397
26. Index 401
27. Acknowledgments 409