From 1619 on, not long after the first settlement, the need for colonial labor was bolstered ... 1700s: Almost half of the slaves coming to North America arrive in Charleston.

Around 1750, the British mainland American colonies had a population of approximately 1.5 million. In addition to settlers from Great Britain, a steady stream of German immigrants began to arrive ...

We have rough ideas of where they were, and they show up on historic maps. But we ... British, and American occupation. But finds from the British colonial era are especially rare—making ...