Q: Why are so many counties and cities in the original 13 colonies still named after British nobility? Dan Vesco | Haymarket, Virginia It’s hard to say for sure why specific places weren’t ...

By the 18th century, 45,000 Africans are transported annually on British ships. 1700s: Almost half of the slaves coming to North America arrive in Charleston. Many stay in South Carolina to work ...

On July 4, 1776, the 13 colonies ... That these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States, that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown ...

(As portrayed in Canada: A People's History) While Quebec had been conquered and was now British, the Thirteen Colonies were going through their own tortured identity crisis: would they remain ...