Resurrecting the forgotten history of the first enslaved Africans in America
Before 1619, enslaved landed in Florida. In 1738, their descendants founded the country’s first free Black settlement, Fort ...
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It Was America’s First English Colony. Then It Was Gone.
Captain John Smith, the leader of the Jamestown colony, heard from the Indians ... “The profound significance of Raleigh’s Virginia voyages to the history and culture of the modern world ...
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Indentured Servants In The U.S.
Indentured servants became vital to the colonial economy. The timing of the Virginia colony was ideal. The Thirty Year's War had left Europe's economy depressed, and many skilled and unskilled ...