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(2005-02-23)Smallpox wreaked havoc amoung Native Americans who lacked biological resistance to European diseases.
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(2005-01-10)A mid 16th century depiction of Timucua
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(2005-03-02)17th Century drawing of African slaves toiling in a Brazilian sugar mill. Similar scenes prevailed on Barbados and other Caribbean colonies dominated by sugar production.
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(2005-03-02)This engraving depicts New Amerstam in 1643 as a bustling port. The figures of African laborers in the foreground attest to the importance of slavery in the Dutch colonial city, where perphaps a quarter of the residents had been born in Africa.
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(2005-03-02)This ball-headed war club, carved of maple wood, is thought to have been owned by King Philip, who led a confederation of Wamponoags and other New England Indians in a war against the colonists in 1675-1676. It is inlaid on both sides with pieces of white and purple wampum, which supposedly represented the number of English and Indian enemies killed.
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(2005-03-02)After the restoration of Charles II (Charles 2) in 1660, several large proprietary colonies joined earlier English settlements in New England and the Chesapeake. By 1685, a growning number of English settlers solidified England's claim to the Atlantic coast from Maine( then a part of the Massachusetts Bay Colony) to the southern edge of Carolina.
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(2005-03-02)This portrait, made in about 1698 by Francis Place, depicts the idealistic colonial proprietor, William Penn.
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(2005-03-02)This oil on canvas, painted circa 1746 depicts Benjamin Franklin as an aspiring gentleman.
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