At first, like their poor English counterparts, the Africans were treated as indentured servants, who would be freed of their obligations to their owners after serving for several years.

English and Spanish are the most common languages ... She said that in the original 13 colonies of the U.S., there were "immigrants from many European nations." European colonization of America ...

Around 1750, the British mainland American colonies had a population of approximately ... some colonists began to agitate for their independence from English rule. This led to the American ...