Any full assessment of the American Revolution must try to understand the place of Loyalists<span>, those Americans who remained faithful to the British Empire </span>during the war<span>. ... Unless the British Army was close at hand to protect </span>Loyalists, they often suffered badtreatment<span> from </span>Patriots<span> and often had to flee their own homes. Pretty Like Sheet </span>
They were not treated well at all. Some got their houses vandalized or burned. Others were beaten or got tar and feathered (when people striped others, poured hot tar on them and covered them in chicken feathers. Most people did not survive this). After the war, the Loyalists were kicked out of the country and went off to British Canada.
In economic terms the slave trade had become less important. There was no longer a need for large numbers of slaves to be imported to the British colonies. There was a world over-supply of sugar and British merchants had difficulties re-exporting it.
