From 1619 on, not long after the first settlement ... 1700s: Almost half of the slaves coming to North America arrive in Charleston. Many stay in South Carolina to work on rice plantations.

Indentured servants first arrived in America in the decade ... one-half to two-thirds of the immigrants who came to the American colonies arrived as indentured servants. Servants typically worked ...

The Netherlands considers the first three islands to be autonomous countries ... It’s interesting to speculate what the United States would look like today if the smaller colonies in North America had ...

Few people realize, though, that before the world wars Germany had 11 colonies in Africa ... not be confused with the neighboring island of American Samoa, a territory of the United States.

The legal history of colonial America reveals that America has been devoted to the free exercise of religion since well before the First Amendment was ratified. Indeed, the two colonies originally ...

Virginia: The first of the 13 American colonies, it grew wealthy from tobacco farming, thanks in part to labor from indentured servants and later enslaved people. Maryland: Founded by Lord ...

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 ...

The southern colonies were known for their plantations, agriculture and reliance on enslaved Africans. This region included Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia. Virginia: ...