By the 1860s, Britain was growing tired of maintaining its colonies. The costs, especially of defending British North America, were burdens that a growing number of British politicians could do ...

Your Artstor image groups were copied to Workspace. The Artstor website will be retired on Aug 1st. The Mississippi Valley Historical Review Vol. 4, No. 4, Mar., 1918 A Plan for the Union of British ...

1750: 61% of all British North American slaves -- nearly 145,000 -- live in Virginia and Maryland, working the tobacco fields. 1770: Crispus Attucks is killed in the Boston Massacre. 1775 ...

It is one of the first recorded arrivals of Africans in British North America. 1640 - Three servants -- a Scotsman, a Dutchman, and an African -- run away from a Virginia plantation. Captured and ...