1750: 61% of all British North American slaves -- nearly 145,000 -- live in Virginia and Maryland, working the tobacco fields. 1770: Crispus Attucks is killed in the Boston Massacre. 1775 ...

North America is the third largest continent in the world. It is located in the Northern Hemisphere. The north of the continent is within the Arctic Circle and the Tropic of Cancer passes through ...

The buckskin map, and our story in this programme, come from the years between the British defeat of the French in North America in 1763, and the outbreak of the American War of Independence in 1776.