The Demographics of Punishment
Most of those punished in colonial America were poor men. Offenders were typically laborers, slaves, servants, and poor freeholders, not ministers of religion or wealthy merchants. In eighteenth-century New …
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Pontiac’s Life After the Rebellion
Pontiac’s role in regional tribal affairs continued after the rebellion fizzled. Although he had lost influence among the native peoples near Detroit for failing to destroy the fort, he …
Quebec City
One of the oldest European settlements in the New World, Quebec City was named after an Algonquian word meaning place where the river narrows. Its powerful influence and strategic …
Proclamation of 1763
At the conclusion of the French and Indian War, known as the Seven Years’ War in Europe, the British extended their rule across French Canada and into Florida through …
America Prisons and Punishment
On the eve of the European invasion of North America, the various aboriginal nations each possessed their own set of laws and norms dictating proper behavior. Early European immigrants, …
Delaware Guide Tourist
In 1977, the Delaware and Pennsylvania Advisory Committee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights published its report on the mushroom industry in Chester County, Pennsylvania, and New …
Providence
Providence, Rhode Island, was founded in 1636 by the banished minister Roger Williams and a group of refugees from the Puritan Massachusetts Bay Colony. In the first half of …
Delaware CHRONOLOGY
1525 Spanish explorer Estevan Gomes passes by and notes the mouth of Delaware Bay. Slave trader Pedro de Quejo’s expedition reaches the entrance of Delaware Bay and lands on …