Law – charters, statutes, judicial decisions, and traditions – mattered in colonial America, and laws about religion mattered a lot. The legal history of colonial America reveals that America has been ...

But that's not the way slavery was established in colonial America. It happened gradually -- one person at a time, one law at a time, even one colony at a time. All servants imported and brought ...

Teri Kanefield, a writer and lawyer who lives in San Francisco, eight years ago published “The Extraordinary Suzy Wright: A Colonial Woman ... female in early America. Wright probably was ...