Q: What would be the difference between an enslaved person during that time -- or a person deemed a slave -- and a person who was a servant? A: There's been a great debate among amongst historians ...

A: Many people in North America in the seventeenth century were unfree in some form. That is, their labor was not their own. If you were indentured, it meant that you had signed away your working ...

A: The first people who come to Jamestown from Africa in a sense come as slaves. We're not sure whether they had been captured off a slave ship in the Caribbean or whether they'd been transported ...

A: Imagine the situation you have in New York City at the end of the American Revolution in 1783, where literally thousands of African Americans who have made their choice to join the British have ...

Q: In the Virginia colony, describe those first settlers who come. What are they like? What kind of people come into America for that first settlement? A: We romanticize, I think, the people who ...

Q: In Jamestown there's the recognition that there's a real need for labor, if this is going to become a profitable colony. What do they begin to do? A: For the English in the New World there are ...

Amanda Blanc needs to raise her bid for insurer Direct Line by 'several hundred million pounds' if the Aviva boss is to secure control of its rival, founder Sir Peter Wood says. Speaking to The ...

A: You try to figure out what's best in the long run for the things that you believe in. We know, for instance, the case of Seymour Burr --he's a slave to the brother of Aaron Burr -- he's living ...

And there aren’t many of us left.” Well, Peter Wood is one, for sure. He is the president of the National Association of Scholars. He is also an anthropologist. And he is my guest on Q&A ...

Peter Hutchins Wood is the author of Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina from 1670 through the Stono Rebellion (1974), which has been described as one of the most influential books on ...

Entrepreneur Sir Peter Wood is to make £360m from selling his stake in the insurer esure, which is being bought by a private equity company. The insurer, which also owns Shelia's Wheels ...