The status of blacks in Virginia slowly changed over the last half of the 17th century. The black indentured servant, with his hope of freedom, was increasingly being replaced by the black slave.

The remains of a structure from the late 1600s have been discovered under a parking lot in historic Williamsburg, Virginia ..

There were no laws in early in 17th-century Virginia that defined the rights, or lack of rights, of blacks. Four cases that came before Virginia courts illustrate their flexibility in the early ...

When intern Erin Cullen unearthed a skull in a 17th-century cellar ... Douglas Owsley examining and early 18th-century burial in Jamestown, Virginia. Not only does Owsley solve the crimes of ...

But Henrietta is also, historian Lisa Hilton thinks, a useful foil for thinking about Aphra Behn, the 17th-century playwright normally remembered as being, in Virginia Woolf’s words, the first ...