This is the grave of John Winthrop, Jr., or John Winthrop the Younger as he was known in ye olden days. Born in 1606 in Groton, Suffolk, England, Winthrop grew up in the radical Protestant world that the Anglicans could not control once it ruled...
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This is the grave of Hugh Jones. Born in 1691 in Little Dewchurch, Herefordshire, England, I don't really know much about his background, but Jones ended up at Oxford, which.
On January 23, 1749, a supposed slave conspiracy was reported in Charleston, South Carolina. This probably nonexistent conspiracy is a good window into the complexities of the slave labor system.
On July 9. 1640, a Virginia court ruled that a Black indentured servant who ran away was in fact a slave. This is a moment by which we can talk about the codification of chattel slavery as the key labor force in early Virginia, with...
On May 30, 1741, Quack and Cuffee, two slaves convicted of a conspiracy to burn New York and start a slave rebellion, were burned to death. Part of the New.
Indigo Production South Carolina. William DeBrahm, A Map of South Carolina and a Part of Georgia London, published by Thomas Jeffreys, 1757 I know you all are a bunch of.
We all need things to read other than articles where liberals and the left yell at each other over the election, depressing election post-mortems, and pieces describing the horrors to come. So how about some good reading on the colonial booze trade? In 1713, because...
This is the grave of John Winthrop. The kindest, gentlest man ever to walk the soil of North America, Winthrop was the governor and founder of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
If this really is evidence of the lost colony of Roanoke, the first attempt at English colonization in North America, that would be pretty fantastic.
Let's learn a bit the lovely people we are remembering today: On May 26, 1637, a Puritan force fortified by Native allies massacred a Pequot fort in Connecticut, killing as many as 500 men, women and children and burning the village to the ground. ......
I trust you spent the week celebrating the 267th anniversary of the Boston Impressment Riot appropriately.
Forget O'Reilly's fears of liberals saying "Happy Holidays" to each other. There was a real war on Christmas in this country and it was waged by those lovely people who.