But that's not the way slavery was established in colonial America ... views of that "terrible transformation" is the colony of Virginia. In the early years of the colony, many Africans and ...

Before 1619, enslaved landed in Florida. In 1738, their descendants founded the country’s first free Black settlement, Fort Mose. Why don’t more people know their story?

Slowly the number of blacks grew in Virginia. In 1625 there were only 23. In 1650 there were about three hundred. By 1700, more than a thousand Africans were being brought into the colony every year.

An ancient DNA (aDNA) study at the 17th-century English colony of Jamestown, Virginia, has identified two of the town's ...

On February 8, 1693, King William III and Queen Mary II of England signed the charter for a "perpetual College of Divinity, Philosophy, Languages, and other good Arts and Sciences" to be established ...

The man explained that he was a tourist who had found the 21-pound stone near the North Carolina–Virginia border ... carve an account of the Lost Colony’s ordeal in stone, or was it the ...

This is seen in the Second Virginia Charter of 1609, where colonial Virginia was proclaimed ... Virginia’s West Augusta ...