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1 day ago · The legal and social status of African peoples was more flexible at first in the English colonies than it later became. Some Africans managed to escape permanent enslavement and a few Africans, such as Anthony Johnson, even owned servants of their own.
3 days ago · He had claimed to an officer that his master, Anthony Johnson, had held him past his indenture term. Johnson himself was a free black, who had arrived in Virginia in 1621 from Portuguese Angola.
2 days ago · As in its Louisiana colony, the French colonial government allowed some rights to free people of color: the mixed-race descendants of white male colonists and black female slaves (and later, mixed-race women).
5 days ago · With the new Times Colonist e-Edition you receive the full replica of your printed edition on your desktop or mobile devices. Completely digital and including all sections and supplements as laid out in your print edition. It is complemented by a variety of digital features such as listening, sharing and printing.
3 days ago · List of convicts on the First Fleet. The First Fleet convicts are named on stone tablets in the Memorial Garden, Wallabadah, New South Wales. The First Fleet is the name given to the group of eleven ships carrying convicts, the first to do so, that left England in May 1787 and arrived in Australia in January 1788.
3 days ago · With the new Times Colonist e-Edition you receive the full replica of your printed edition on your desktop or mobile devices. Completely digital and including all sections and supplements as laid out in your print edition. It is complemented by a variety of digital features such as listening, sharing and printing.
2 days ago · After the colonists, aided by the turmoil of the Glorious Revolution of 1688 in England, succeeded in overthrowing the dominion scheme, the crown installed a royal governor in Massachusetts to protect its interests.
