Yale professor Lisa Lowe held a lecture titled “Colonial Histories of the Present,” which navigated America’s history of colonialism, slavery and discrimination to study how each ...

Indentured servants first arrived in America in the decade following ... satisfaction was a modest life as a freeman in a burgeoning colonial economy. In 1619 the first black Africans came to ...

The Revolutionary War artifacts tell the story of what General Cornwallis tried to destroy forever—but couldn’t erase.

But that's not the way slavery was established in colonial America. It happened gradually ... was not one that was life-long. A slave could become free by converting to Christianity.

Colonial Williamsburg, which is in the Tidewater region of Virginia, is the world’s largest living history museum, offering ...

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