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?

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

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.

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 ...

The museum tells the story of Virginia’s colonial capital through interpreters and restored buildings on 300 acres (120 hectares), which include parts of the original city. Founded in 1926, the museum ...

The museum tells the story of Virginia’s colonial capital through interpreters and restored buildings on 300 acres (120 hectares), which include parts of the original city. Founded in 1926 ...