Three Peoples, One King

"Piecuch's book provides a fresh treatment of the field and helps the reader gain a better understanding of exactly what loyalty meant and how much suffering occurred at the hands of the rebels. Piecuch reinforces the belief that loyalists were devoted British subjects determined to maintain the connection between the colonies and the Crown and work within the system to effect change."—South Carolina Historical Magazine

"The research undergirding this effort is tremendous. Piecuch has been unstinting in his pursuit of manuscript sources, and his study is adequately informed by the latest secondary research. More importantly, Piecuch is among the first to structure a study of loyalism in the revolutionary South that incorporates Indians and African Americans."—William and Mary Quarterly

"Piecuch's book is a much needed and welcomed addition to the history of the American Revolution in the South and of its Loyalist, Indian, and slave participants."—Georgia Historical Quarterly

"Fighting on the losing side has its costs in the pages of history, where the winners control the master narratives. Bucking this tide, Jim Piecuch rescues the lost stories of the Loyalists of the Lower South—white, black, and red—in this richly detailed and closely argued book."—Gary B. Nash, professor emeritus of history, University of California, Los Angeles

"Three Peoples, One King is an outstanding volume that contributes significantly to scholarship on the American Revolution. In this thorough study, Jim Piecuch pays much overdue attention to the 'outsiders'—Loyalists, blacks, and Natives Americans—in the southernmost colonies to further our understanding of the motivations and endeavors of those who cast their lot with the British during the war."—R. Don Higginbotham, Dowd Professor of history, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill