A charter colony was Rhode Island, Connecticut, or Massachusetts Bay which was incorporated during the early 1600s; Virginia, at one time, was one as well. Land grants from the Crown established these ...

From 1619 on, not long after the first settlement, the need for colonial labor was bolstered by the importation of African captives. At first, like their poor English counterparts, the Africans ...

The shift from indentured servitude to racial slavery in the British colonies is evident in the development of the colonies' laws. • Virginia, 1639: The first law to exclude "Negroes" from ...

and shipped to the colony in the early 1600s. Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in the Americas, existed from ...