Poses the question: to what extent did it make a difference to those living in the colonies that made up British North America in the seventeenth and eighteenth
Until relatively recently, the connection between British imperial history and the history of early America was taken for granted. In recent times, however, ear
How did descriptions of individuals' appearance reinforce emergent categories of race? In Colonial Complexions, more than 4000 advertisements for runaway slaves
White Cargo is the forgotten story of the thousands of Britons who lived and died in bondage in Britain's American colonies. In the seventeenth and eighteenth c