The Pull of a Revolutionary America: The British Atlantic Islands in the American Revolution

This project examines the political, economic, and social influence the revolutionary American colonies had on the British Atlantic islands of Bermuda and the Bahamas from 1763 through the 1780s. The MHS collection of British commercial documents relating to the New England-Bermuda trade, business papers and correspondence, and patriot maps indicating the locations of Bermuda's pro-American inhabitants will establish the degree of influence the rebellious Americans had on the British Atlantic islands over the course of the American Revolution - one that moved from strongly supporting the American cause, to becoming Britain's western Gibraltar.