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Indentures for Apprenticeship Agreements offered far greater terms than the typical indenture used to entice young men and women into working as unskilled laborers.

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For over 150 years, Britain often disposed of her criminals by shipping convicts off to the New World.

Venturers to Virginia and Maryland came from western and southern England, unlike the Puritans from East Anglia towns. Their land-oriented ideals shaped the colonies.

Two passenger lists from 1635 disclose widely different emigrants, enabling historians to draw conclusions about family and community building in colonial America.

When ordinary sources reveal no data, it is to such lesser-known sources as these Connecticut Apprenticeship records that experienced genealogists turn.

The people of Jamestown are ready to call it quits when, in 1610, Lord Thomas West De la Warr arrives in Virginia to be governor. John Rolfe marries Pocahontas and introd

The first English settlers in Colonial Virginia did nor arrive with a well-developed concept of race based slavery. Slavery had to be invented.

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Disguised as a man, Deborah Samson fought during the American Revolution; after being wounded, she received an honorable discharge and began a public speaking career.

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Robert Quillen, "the sage of Fountain Inn," has been called the Mark Twain of his day and the South's answer to H. L. Mencken. Was he that good?

Following emancipation, a new tiered system of economic exploitation replaced an almost equal system of slavery, setting off a celebrated labor revolt on St. Croix.

With tobacco as a cash crop the early English colonies in America survived, multiplied, and built a culture based on its cultivation.

Punishment for minor petty crimes were severe in the early days of American colonialism in order to protect fragile communities and establish necessary law and order.

The settlement and heritage of the county has been largely overshadowed by museum restorations at Jamestown and Williamsburg, Virginia's first and second capital cities.

Sam Colt's mother dies. His father's business fails. Sam is hired out as an indentured servant. He realizes a dire need for a repeating firearm.

Samuel Colt begins experimenting with batteries and electricity. He plans a big bang for July 4, 1829.

A historic landmark in Suriname continues to serve as a pillar of historic remembrance.

Henry Morgan was perhaps the most successful buccaneer. Here we explore some of his adventures and the man behind the myth.

Sam Colt, at age four, causes his first explosion. It was far from his last one. There were many explosions to come before he invented the firearm that made him famous.

Toni Morrison, the Nobel Prize-winning, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer has written a new novel that stand tall in the American canon.

George Washington accepted his first presidency in 1785, not of the United States but for the Patowmack Company, which sought to make the Potomac River navigable.

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One of Sarah Palin's more controversial ancestors is Mayflower Pilgrim Stephen Hopkins. Four centuries have not separated the fact and fiction of his past.

Before the Revolutionary War, a self-styled Aristocracy substituted slave labor for "artisan and mechanic" contributions of the middle class in the Northern Colonies.

Penal colonies were places where many civilized societies prior to the nineteenth century would send criminals in order for punishment and to use them for cheap labor.

The work of this colonial printer illustrates the development of printing as a means to inform the public at a time before freedom of the press was taken for granted.

George Washington, first American President: Early life in Virginia on Rappahannock and Potomac Rivers. Great-grandfather known by Indians as Destroyer of Villages.

Many people want to know what the Bible says about money, and few have really studied money in the Bible, specifically how people made money in Bible times.

From the 1860s to 1930s, a mostly forgotten social experiment saw children removed from UK streets and workhouses and sent into servitude throughout the Commonwealth.

Bacon's Rebellion came in response to conflicts over frontier Indian policies between settlers and the colonial government as well as unjust taxes and favoritism.

Colonial Era occupations were interesting and unique, focusing on skilled trades necessary in the creation of a society that worked toward prosperity and consumerism.

While Spanish motivations at New World colonization have often been described as "God, Gold, and Glory," English goals centered on profitable enterprises such as tobacco.

The early history of black life in New York City includes slaves, servants and free men, and dates back to the earliest days of the Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam.

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An overview of the history of transportation to Australia as a penal sentence for criminals from Britain in the 1700s-1800s.

Roots of the American Civil War begin in 1619 when some Jamestown, Virginia residents buy twenty Africans.

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By the late 18th century, the Danish West Indies included what is now commonly referred to as the Virgin Islands: St. Thomas, St. John and St. Croix.

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