Patrick Henry introduced three resolutions to the Second Virginia Convention when he delivered his famous “Liberty or Death” ...

Inside the steeple of Old North Church and among the Southern Colonies, less familiar stories of the events from 250 years ...

Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith seeks to whitewash history in the name of an anti-intellectual celebration of American greatness.

In 1775, the indentured servant witnessed Patrick Henry’s ... “He was known as the Virginia giant—the Virginia Hercules—because he was huge.” A granite memorial marks the spot in ...

Counties in Virginia quickly mustered volunteers ... his “Proclamation” granting liberty to the slaves and indentured servants of rebels who would take up arms and fight for the king.

A reluctance – or refusal – to even mention the word “slavery” has been around for a long time. It began to surface more ...

“free persons,” “those bound to Service for a Term of Years (i.e., indentured servants)," “Indians not taxed” and “three fifths of all other Persons.” Need a break? Play the USA ...

Tony’s life is rich with oddities and hijinks, humour and tragedy. Set largely during the early days of English colonisation ...

This profile fit that of an indentured servant in the Chesapeake Bay of the ... examining and early 18th-century burial in Jamestown, Virginia. Not only does Owsley solve the crimes of the past ...

Jamestown, Virginia, in the United States ... Powhatan land was encroached upon, and indentured servants were sent to the colony. By 1619, enslaved people from Angola’s kingdom of Ndongo ...