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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 ...

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 ...

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

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.

These colonies stretched along the Atlantic coast, 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 ...

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 shift from indentured servitude to racial slavery in the British colonies is evident in the development of the colonies' laws. • Virginia, 1639: The first law to exclude "Negroes" from ...

A study of the lived history of nineteenth-century British imperialism through the lives of one extended family in North America, the Caribbean and the United Kingdom. The prominent colonial governor ...