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Henry Hudson (c. 1565 – disappeared 23 June 1611) was an English sea explorer and navigator during the early 17th century, best known for his explorations of present-day Canada and parts of the Northeastern United States.
Former U.S. Representative and Governor of South Carolina and future U.S. Senator James Henry Hammond writes Two Letters on Slavery in the United States, Addressed to Thomas Clarkson, Esq., in which he expresses the view that slavery is a "positive good." [105] Anti-slavery advocates denounce Texas Annexation as evil expansion of slave territory.
1609 – Henry Hudson explores the Hudson River. 1610- First English settlement in Newfoundland; 1611–16 – Thomas Dale and Thomas Gates serve as Governor of Virginia. 1614 – Peace between the Virginia colony and the Powhatan Confederacy. 1619 – First meeting of the Virginia House of Burgesses. First Africans in Virginia.
The year marked the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the first Africans to the English colony of Virginia, an event generally regarded as the beginning of American slavery.
Abacuk Pricket was the navigator of the Discovery on the fourth voyage of captain Henry Hudson.He was one of the mutineers who set Hudson adrift along with his teenage son John, and seven crewmen in a small boat, and then returned to England, eventually being one of only eight sailors who made it back to England alive. [1]
The ship was captained by Henry Hudson, an Englishman in the service of the Dutch Republic. [2] In 1909, the Kingdom of the Netherlands presented the United States with a replica of Halve Maen to commemorate the 300th anniversary of Hudson's voyage; the replica was destroyed in a fire in 1934. Over fifty years later, in 1989, the New Netherland ...
The colony developed an agricultural economy based on African slavery. England controlled Suriname during the Napoleonic Wars from 1799 until 1816, when it was returned to the Dutch. The Netherlands abolished slavery in 1863 and later imported indentured labor from the British Raj and the Dutch East Indies to keep the economy going. Internal ...
A native looks over New York Harbor to see the arrival of Henry Hudson in 1609. The history of Albany, New York prior to 1664 begins with the native inhabitants of the area and ends in 1664, with the English takeover of New Netherland. The area was originally inhabited by Algonquian Indian tribes and was given different names by the various ...