From 1619 on, not long after the first settlement, the need for colonial labor was bolstered ... 1700s: Almost half of the slaves coming to North America arrive in Charleston.

The 510-year-old map is the first to name America. A world map in the form of a set of gores for a terrestrial globe, from 1507 by cartographer Martin Waldseemueller is displayed at Christie's ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The only surviving copy of the 500-year-old map that first used the name America goes on permanent display this month at the Library of Congress, but even as it prepares for ...

The map, which shows North and South America, apparently states that it is a 1763 copy of another map made in 1418. If true, it could imply Chinese mariners discovered and mapped America decades ...