Whatever the status of these first Africans to arrive at Jamestown, it is clear that by 1640, at least one African had been declared a slave. This African was ordered by the court "to serve his ...

We sometimes imagine that such oppressive laws were put quickly into full force by greedy landowners. But that's not the way slavery was established in colonial America. It happened gradually ...

My first visit to Colonial Williamsburg was ... Williamsburg, Virginia, was the capital of the Virginia Colony from 1699 to ...

The early curriculum for the college’s Indian school included ... trade and diplomacy were “major points of articulation” for the westward-focused Virginia colony and Indian nations heavily engaged in ...