Around 1750, the British mainland American colonies ... of Scots-Irish to the colonies. The majority of white colonists resided in the North, but the majority of black people lived in the South ...

Black activists, in turn, recognized their own circumstances in the images of colonial subjects fighting an oppressive white government. America’s colonial history looked quite different from ...

A Virginia museum has nearly finished restoring the nation’s oldest surviving schoolhouse for Black children ... literacy laws, white leaders across much of Colonial America forbid educating ...