Thus the rise of capitalism cannot be disassociated from drug use as was the case with opium which the Chinese were forced to ...

New research shows that when the whaling industry in the US produced more products, the proportion of slaves also declined in ...

The battles, which emerged from a gathering revolutionary crisis, predicted the outcome of the war: the victory of the ...

Once 2,000 square miles in Virginia and ... Native Americans. The first maroons were there within a few years of the arrival of African slaves in nearby Jamestown in 1619. After 1680, Native ...

The Supreme Court heard arguments over whether taxpayer dollars may be used to directly fund a proposed Catholic charter ...

Woodland buffalo and the Indians who hunted them wore the first ... to coastal Virginia as early as 1619; by 1710, slaves constituted one-quarter of the colony’s population. They brought ...

In 1607, 104 English settlers picked the worst possible spot to build America’s first permanent colony. The 104 original ...

While loading up three ships bound for the New World, the English imagined the incredible profits from the resources across ...

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