He arrived in America with the Puritans in 1624 and helped co-found the settlement of Merrymount, which is now Quincy, ...
Slavery was one of the cornerstones of European colonization across the Americas. The first slaves – 20 Africans - arrived on a Dutch ship around1619 to the Virginia colony at Jamestown.
The American Colonization Society, founded in 1816 to assist free black people in emigrating to Africa, was the brainchild of the Reverend Robert Finley, a Presbyterian minister from Basking Ridge ...
Suffers from significant fillm emulsion damage at the beginning. The film narrates the story of European explorers during the Age of Discovery, focusing on the French, English, and Dutch efforts ...
Consequently, the sudden human influence during European colonization of southern Africa in the 17th century likely played a ...
Christopher Columbus was a 15th and 16th century explorer credited for connecting the Old World (Europe, Africa, and Asia) and the New World (North America and South America). Born in Genoa, Italy ...
President Trump's executive order designating English as the official language of the U.S. will have sweeping ramifications ...