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 ...

As the British Empire expanded around the globe ... barely earning a footnote in many chronicles of American colonization. “When historians have thought about Bermuda, it’s as a curiosity ...

The American Colonization Society, founded in 1816 to assist free black people in emigrating to Africa, was the brainchild of the Reverend Robert Finley, a Presbyterian minister from Basking Ridge ...

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

Rather than an isolated fantasy land, colonial planners saw Nova ... completing British control of the northeastern North American seaboard. But while Britons could now factually claim to have ...

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 ...

A colonial rebellion quickly turned into a civil war across British America. To defeat and dismantle the regime that the ...

David:The history of British migration is one of people leaving ... cheap labour in Britain’s newly created colonies in north America. David:From 1610 to American independence in 1776, half ...