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The slaves in the 13 colonies

Slavery was the status of several thousand inhabitants of the Thirteen Colonies. Starting around 1680, more than 100,000 Africans were forcibly […]

The yeoman and the gentleman farmer

There were two types of prosperous farmers in the Thirteen Colonies. The first and larger group were the yeomen, or independent […]

The clergy

There were very few Catholics in the Thirteen Colonies, except in Maryland. The vast majority of the populationPopulation comes from the Latin populus, […]

George Washington

George Washington was born in 1732 on a Virginia plantation. His family owned large tracts of land for farming, but also […]

Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin was born in Boston in 1706. He served as an apprentice printer to his older brother, but then fled […]

1,000,000 people

With one million inhabitants, there were almost 20 times more English colonists than the 55,000 French colonists. The colonyColonizationColonization occurs […]

Between the Atlantic and the Appalachians

Mr. Intendantreprésentant du roi en Nouvelle-France., I have just visited the English territoryA territoryA territory is an area of land, or sometimes of sea, that we can say "belongs"... is an area of land, or […]

The townships

In the Thirteen Colonies, the territoryA territoryA territory is an area of land, or sometimes of sea, that we can say "belongs"... is an area of land, or sometimes of sea, that we can say […]

The Thirteen Colonies around 1745

South of us the 13 English Colonies, which would later become the United States, had grown into a large and […]