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The American
Colonies in the 17th Century: Politics
This site includes full-text documents, including Mayflower Documents,
the Virginia Charters, Bacon's Rebellion, and the First Thanksgiving Day
Proclomation.
William Penn:
Visionary Proprietor
This site has complete biographical and historical information about
William Penn.
The
African Diaspora
By Paul E. Lovejoy and subtitled Revisionist Interpretations of Ethnicity,
Culture and Religion under Slavery, is offered online by H-Net.
Museum
of Slavery in the Atlantic
The Museum of Slavery in the Atlantic is designed as a "site of
memory" to the enslavement of Africans in modern times. Designed in
North America for all North Americans (but especially for elementary and
secondary school students and their teachers) the site aims to enhance
public memory of the life experiences and valuable contributions of enslaved
Africans and of the many legacies and tragedies of slavery and the slave
trade.
American Lives: William Byrd
William
Byrd
Analysis, images, and tables relating to Byrd's History of the Dividing
Line betwixt Virginia and North Carolina.
William
Byrd and his History of the Dividing Line
The significance of Byrd and his History of the Dividing Line.
The site also contains images.
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