An excerpt of a primary source, American Husbandry, a book from 1775, describing the crops of the Middle Colonies.

The Quakers were persecuted in England and in many English colonies. Read about William Penn's establishment of the colony of Pennsylvania where Quakers and others could live with religious liberty.

Compares life in the three regions of the thirteen British colonies - the New England colonies (Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Connecticut), the Middle Colonies (New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and New Jersey), and the...

History paper provides a general overview of the northern, middle, and southern colonies highlighting their differences in religion, economics, and social issues.

The number of Africans who died or were enslaved as a result of slave trading both across the Atlantic and into the Arabian peninsula is truly shocking. Read about the Middle Passage which brought millions of slaves to the New World, see...

Read a very brief description of slavery in the New England and Middle colonies.

Read about the three distinct systems of slavery that developed in the colonies based primarily on the crops that were grown in each region. See how the system affected the way the culture of slaves grew out of the region.

Section from a textbook style book explains the British and American strategies of 1776 through 1778 and identifies the key battles of the early years of the Revolution.

Three seventeenth-century homes in Pennsylvania and New York and three accounts from those English colonies of the factors leading to prosperity and permanence.

Here from PBS is the original text of a runaway slave ad for a slave named Jem. His owner in Newark, New Jersey describes him and offers a reward.

Detailed information (much more than you will need) about German-speaking immigrants to America. The site highlights Pennsylvania as a hub for immigrants. Includes information about religious backgrounds and reasons for leaving their...

From a larger site from PBS' Africans in America, blurb about Olaudah Equiano and his autobiography with a link to text of this historical document.