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.

It's clear that this also included an exchange of ideas on how people should be governed and the proper limits of power that ...

from New Hampshire in the north to Georgia in the south. But how did these British colonies evolve into the United States of America? Let’s take a journey through history and explore what made ...

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 ...

When British warships sailed up to the colony ... what the United States would look like today if the smaller colonies in North America had survived. Potentially, Denmark could have expanded ...

Discoveries of America is a collection of personal letters written by eighteen of the thousands of British emigrants who came to North America in the fifteen ... few letters sent by emigrants during ...

By the 1860s, Britain was growing tired of maintaining its colonies. The costs, especially of defending British North America, were burdens that a growing number of British politicians could do ...

The man with a taste for alcohol and a brilliant political mind would help shape the British colonies of North America into one nation.

The English who had settled in Jamestown and, over the rest of the 17th century, in the other British North American colonies soon reached a turning point. Would they continue to hire Europeans ...

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 ...

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 ...