Loyalits and Patriots

Although most of the colonists suppported the idea of an independence, there was still a minority that prefered the British rule. These people were called the loyalists.

These loyalists feared the patriots and thought they were brutal. One of them even declared: "If I must be a slave, let it be by the king and not by vermins". Obiously vermins refering to the Patriots. They feared that the Patriots' resistance would cause war with Britain and doubted they could defeat them.

In Summer of 1774, John Adams(patriot) and Jonathan Sewell(loyalist) walked together and disscused the crisis. Sewell warned Adams that the British army was quite powerful, but Adams didn't let that stop him.

People thought the loyalists were rich people who sold their fellow colonists just to gain a position in government, but that was all a stereotype. They were really just normal folk, farmers, part of the minority.

To support the war, the Patriots had to place taxes and create and oath of alligence. They also shut down the newspapers of the loyalists. Because of all of this the loyalists began to think that the Patriots were worse than the British. The native american and the slaves also started to side with the loyalists.
Thousands of enslaved people in the South escaped and joined the British army.