People living in British America and later the nascent United States recorded their family histories in needlework samplers, ...

Colonial Williamsburg tells the story of early American settlers. ... First Baptist Church was founded in 1776 by free and enslaved Black people in Williamsburg, Virginia’s colonial capital.

HAMPTON, Va. – At the dawn of Colonial America, two families lived in the same household, maybe under the same roof. One was white, one black. One was from England, one from Africa. One, almost ...

HANDOUT: Slavery in Colonial America Graphic Organizer (Google Slide) Video Clip: The Life of A Slave in Colonial America (7:21) How did enslaved people keep their African heritage alive?

Description. Interpreter, Harold Caldwell discusses the life of enslaved people living in Colonial America. Bell Ringer Assignment. How did enslaved people keep their African heritage alive?

For many years, the portrayal of indigenous people in America has existed in a paradox. They either are described as “merciless Indian savages, whose known rule of warfare is an undistinguish… ...

A gathering in 1776 on a plantation of enslaved and free Black people in colonial Virginia established what would become one of America's first known Black Christian congregations.

Marina Koren: So, I had no idea that John Quincy Adams was so into space exploration. MacDonald: Yeah, neither did I. John Quincy Adams was this fascinating character. He grew up with his father ...

WILLIAMSBURG, Va. — On the streets of Colonial Williamsburg — one of the world’s premier living-history museums — Emily James cuts a formidable figure. Portraying Edith Cumbo, a free woman ...

To be sure, white American farmers of the late 1700s and the 1800s laid a special claim to patriotic virtue. Thomas Jefferson even called them the “chosen people of God.” ...