But that's not the way slavery was established in colonial America. It happened gradually ... encouraging it to expand the British slave trade. In 1698, the English Parliament ruled that ...

When colonial-era reenactors gather in June to mark the 250th anniversary of one of the American Revolution’s most ...

From 1619 on, not long after the first settlement, the need for colonial labor ... annually on British ships. 1700s: Almost half of the slaves coming to North America arrive in Charleston.

The discovery provides tangible evidence of a British military presence in Florida during their brief occupation from 1763 to ...

As the British pushed deeper into North America, they ended up giving Indians concessions that colonists would not tolerate.

There is no other historical or archaeological evidence for contact between the whalers and the Yaburara', said archaeologist ...

NOVA “Revolutionary War Weapons” Wednesday, April 9 at 9:00 pm In April 1775, war breaks out in Britain’s most troublesome ...

William Lyon Mackenzie, editor of the Colonial Advocate in Upper Canada, advocated more democratic government in British North America. (As portrayed by Martin Neufeld in Canada: A People's ...

With the Revolutionary War under way, these pioneers were vulnerable to attack from both British and Native American forces.

People in Africa were burdened by colonial perceptions of who they were. The British believed Africans were essentially different from Europeans and would stay that way. This point of view invited ...