From 1619 on, not long after the first settlement, the need for colonial labor was bolstered ... put to work on tobacco plantations. 1663: A Virginia court decides that a child born to a slave ...

Archaeologists in Colonial Williamsburg have ... Eighteenth-century maps of the site, which is located in eastern Virginia, and other historical documents give evidence that military housing ...

(AP) — Archaeologists in Virginia are uncovering one of colonial America’s most lavish displays of ... the restoration will be done without the benefit of surviving maps or diagrams, relying instead ...