Dating to the nascent years of the early beginnings of Massachusetts Bay, the Fairbanks House in Dedham, Massachusetts, ...

Indentured servants first arrived in America in the decade following ... satisfaction was a modest life as a freeman in a burgeoning colonial economy. In 1619 the first black Africans came to ...

But that's not the way slavery was established in colonial America. It happened gradually ... was not one that was life-long. A slave could become free by converting to Christianity.

We show them different aspects of colonial life. What it was like in Mobile from the 1750s to the early American period in the 1820s,” Curator of Education Jennifer Theeck said. Students were ...