Yet, the colony survived, paving the way for other colonies to flourish. The 13 colonies can be divided into three distinct regions: The New England colonies included Massachusetts, Rhode Island ...

From 1619 on, not long after the first settlement, the need for colonial labor was bolstered ... However, over the course of the century, a new race-based slavery system developed, and by the ...

You are right, and Senator Morgan, too -- "the Constitution does not enter at all into the question" of colonial expansion ... United States will be to have colonies, and not to infuse Cuba ...

Her 1972 dissertation on personal wealth in the Thirteen Colonies was the basis of her first book ... Peoples of a Spacious Land: Families and Cultures in Colonial New England. Harvard University ...

The New York Review of Books "This short, crisply written book makes a major contribution to our understanding of magic and witchcraft in the culture of seventeenth-century New England ... studies of ...

Scott Douglas Gerber offers new insights about each of the five English American colonies founded for religious reasons – Maryland, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, and Massachusetts – and ...

As one of the thirteen original colonies, Rhode Island ... a National Historic Landmark serving up New England cuisine in a cozy atmosphere full of colonial charm. Here's all the details about ...

CoCoLaw will provide a comparative account of how early modern colonial laws of England, the Netherlands, Spain and Portugal evolved. The Project sets the colonial laws in two important contexts: the ...