European demand for fur pelts and wheat helped shape early American agriculture. Learn how global markets drove farming expansion in the ...

Final Passages: Captives in the Intercolonial Slave Trade -- Black Markets for Black Labor: Pirates, Privateers, and Interlopers in the Origins of the Intercolonial Slave Trade, ca. 1619-1720 -- ...

Mercantilism is an economic policy designed to increase a nation's wealth through exports. It thrived in Great Britain between the 16th and 18th centuries. The country enjoyed the greatest benefits of ...

I hope you did not miss the Colonial Trade Fair during the Virginia Highlands Festival. It was an encampment of tents on Dunn’s Meadow, staffed by re-enactors selling wares that were typical of the ...