By focusing on law, Scott Douglas Gerber offers new insights about each of the five English American colonies founded for religious reasons – Maryland, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, and ...

South Carolina's history is deeply woven into the fabric of the United States, spanning from the early colonial period ... where American forces repelled a British fleet near Charleston ...

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.

During the early years of the British Empire, 13 colonies in North America were established by the British. These colonies went to war against Britain in 1775 to achieve their freedom, declaring ...

"The first soup kitchen that has been in London (Ontario) has been established here within ... mind would help shape the British colonies of North America into one nation.

Established in 1607, Jamestown was the first permanent British colony in America. But it nearly didn't survive. The fact it did, is due in large part to Sir George Yeardley, a military man ...

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 ...

The 13 original colonies of the United States were the foundation of what would become a new nation, born from a blend of ambition, conflict and compromise. These colonies stretched along the Atlantic ...

Excavations at the site of a Native American ... Colony legends and owns a modern copy of White’s watercolor map. In 2011 he became curious about two faint patches on his copy. The British ...