Colonial America
- Title
- Colonial America
- Description
- 1607-1775. This period covers the colony of Jamestown to the start of the American Revolution. Colonists from European countries brought with them their ideas of race and liberty and the introduction of racial slavery. Documents from this era include racialized legislation relating to enslaved Africans, free Black people, and Native tribal nations, as well as colonial charters that reveal some of the founding liberal principles that would become central to American ideology.
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- Temporal Coverage
- Title
- Colonial America
- Description
- 1607-1775. This period covers the colony of Jamestown to the start of the American Revolution. Colonists from European countries brought with them their ideas of race and liberty and the introduction of racial slavery. Documents from this era include racialized legislation relating to enslaved Africans, free Black people, and Native tribal nations, as well as colonial charters that reveal some of the founding liberal principles that would become central to American ideology.
- Item sets
- Temporal Coverage