From 1619 on, not long after the first settlement, the need for colonial labor was bolstered ... 45,000 Africans are transported annually on British ships. 1700s: Almost half of the slaves coming ...

The man with a taste for alcohol and a brilliant political mind would help shape the British colonies of North America into one nation.

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 ...

Britain's colonies sent over two and a half million men to fight for Britain during the war. India sent the most soldiers. At that time, India included both Pakistan and Bangladesh. British ...

The territory had become a British colony in 1858. United Province of Canada The colonies each had a separate government with locally elected representatives, although all were still subject to ...

People in Africa were burdened by colonial perceptions of who they were. The British believed Africans were essentially different from Europeans and would stay that way. This point of view invited ...

King Charles is in Kenya in his first foreign visit as a monarch to a Commonwealth nation where he addressed the colonial past of British rule in East Africa, and abuses committed by colonial ...