Richard Ayre travels to America to become an indentured servant in the Jamestown Colony, where he befriends an Native American boy who teaches him an important lesson about friendship.
A poor, friendless English boy, shipped to America as an indentured servant in the early eighteenth century, runs away from a cruel master and dreams of building a house of his own.
Presents a children's study of the cultural and social life of the early American colonists including their homes and towns, businesses and trades, arts and crafts, and their associations and treaties with the Native American tribes on whose lands they settled.
An account of the life of William Penn, telling of his Quaker beliefs and his urging that people be given religious freedom, discussing his efforts to establish the self-governing colony of Pennsylvania, and examining his many personal setbacks. Presented in graphic format.
When his older sister disappears, twelve-year-old Buddy Stebbins follows her back in time and finds himself aboard a seventeenth-century pirate ship captained by a distant relative.
Discusses the founding of the Jamestown colony in Virginia in 1607, and looks at how the English colonists weathered disease, starvation, winter storms, and Native American attacks to survive and thrive under the leadership of Captain John Smith.
Two fifteen-year-old girls--one a slave and the other an indentured servant--escape their Carolina plantation and try to make their way to Fort Moses, Florida, a Spanish colony that gives sanctuary to slaves.
Profiles the people and the events prior to the signing of the Declaration of Independence that laid the groundwork leading to the American Revolution.
Jamestown, Williamsburg, St. Mary's City and beyond
1997
Presents a selection of primary source documents that provides insight into the unique characteristics of life in the Southern towns and colonies of pre-Revolutionary America.
