Catastrophes such as the Black Death played their part in keeping population figures down, and reduced the number of the British people ... increases during the 1600s and 1700s.

Around 1750, the British mainland American colonies had a ... a steady stream of German immigrants began to arrive in the late 1600s and reached its peak between 1749 and 1754, when more than ...

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 ...