All About When
The first African captives arrived in Virginia’s Jamestown colony in 1619, but their status was ambiguous—neither slave nor free. For years, they labored alongside white indentured servants, their fates intertwined in a…
Read more → How Virginia Became Slavery’s Cradle: When Did It First Emerge?
The summer of 1676 in Virginia was scorching—both in temperature and in the simmering rage of a young planter named Nathaniel Bacon. By the time the smoke cleared, his rebellion had burned…
Read more → The Forgotten Spark: When Was Bacon’s Rebellion—and Why It Changed America Forever
The Powhatan woman whose story became synonymous with colonial America’s founding was not the Disney princess of legend. Pocahontas—whose real name was Amonute, though she was also called Matoaka—lived a life far…
