The majority of white colonists resided in the North, but the majority of black people lived in the South, driving agricultural economies based on tobacco in Virginia and Maryland and on rice ...

(AP) — Archaeologists in Virginia are uncovering one of colonial America’s most lavish displays of ... the restoration will be done without the benefit of surviving maps or diagrams, relying instead ...

Maryland, 1664 That whatsoever free-born [English ... so married shall be slaves as their fathers were. Virginia, 1667 Act III. Whereas some doubts have arisen whether children that are slaves ...