An ancient map dating back ... settlements in Virginia, probably dating from the sixteenth century. The find suggests that archaeologists had stumbled upon a previously unknown English settlement. The ...

A 400-year-old map could reveal the secrets of a lost English colony that experts have spent hundreds of years searching for.

From 1619 on, not long after the first settlement ... Almost half of the slaves coming to North America arrive in Charleston. Many stay in South Carolina to work on rice plantations.