Though popular imagination remembers Colonial America for its quaint tea ... window into one of the most important facets of life in the Colonial Era: what people ate. The story of food in ...

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But that's not the way slavery was established in colonial America. It happened gradually ... was not one that was life-long. A slave could become free by converting to Christianity.

Marriage in colonial North America was notable for being early (for women) and marked by low percentages never marrying. This was different from the distinctive northwest European pattern of late ...