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Map: The British Colonies
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.
America’s designs on annexing Canada have a long history − and record of political failures
Trump is not the first American leader to dream of northern expansion. History suggests these designs reveal simmering ...
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British North America
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 ...
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Life in the Colonies
The man with a taste for alcohol and a brilliant political mind would help shape the British colonies of North America into one nation.
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The British Empire: An overview
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 ...
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Map: The Revolutionary Era
Around 1750, the British mainland American ... a massive flight of Scots-Irish to the colonies. The majority of white colonists resided in the North, but the majority of black people lived in ...
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Gender, Family, Race, and the Colonial State in Early Nineteenth-Century Jamaica
Rethinking the Colonial State: Family, Gender and Governmentality in Eighteenth-Century British Frontiers. American Historical Review 116(5): 1294–1322. Wulf, Karin, 2010. Women and Families in Early ...