Virginia: The first of the 13 American colonies, it grew wealthy from tobacco farming, thanks in part to labor from indentured servants and later enslaved people. Maryland: Founded by Lord ...
1700s: Almost half of the slaves coming to North America arrive in Charleston. Many stay in South Carolina to work on rice plantations. 1739: The Stono rebellion breaks out around Charleston ...
ABOVE: Watch a lecture and conversation on Manifest The Thirteen Colonies were a group of British colonies on the Atlantic coast of North America during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries.