From 1619 on, not long after the first settlement, the need for colonial labor was bolstered by the importation of African captives. At first, like their poor English counterparts, the Africans ...

The keepers of statistics in the colonies were not much interested in the native population but they kept careful notes about the lives of white colonists. About half were Catholic and half ...

The shift from indentured servitude to racial slavery in the British colonies is evident in the development of the colonies' laws. • Virginia, 1639: The first law to exclude "Negroes" from ...

However, life in Federation colonies from The Original Series era ... Federation staff on the Deep Space Nine station, like ...

Four new emperor penguin colonies have been identified in Antarctica from satellite imagery. It brings the number of known nesting sites around the White Continent to 66. With the discoveries ...

Siphonophores are unusual animals made up of individual organisms called "zooids," which each have a distinct function — despite being genetically identical. Why they're awesome: The largest ...

Before India legalised homosexual sex in 2018, at least one billion people in Asia lived with some form of anti-LGBTQ legislation For much of the past two centuries, it was illegal to be gay in a ...

Great Britain, Germany, Russia and Austria-Hungary all ruled empires. Their colonies sent supplies, food and soldiers to help in the war effort. Britain's colonies sent over two and a half million ...

The empire grew to rule over 400 million people, having a significant impact on people in Britain and the colonies. British colonialism in India From 1857, India was directly ruled by Britain ...