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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Around 1750, the British mainland American colonies had a population of approximately ... The majority of white colonists resided in the North, but the majority of black people lived in the ...

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 ...

In 1744, leaders of the Iroquois Confederacy met with representatives of several British ... a Dozen English Colonies.” These ...

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 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 these ...