Search results
1 day ago · The first colonial settlement in Casco Bay was that of Captain Christopher Levett, an English explorer and agent of Gorges, who built a house on House Island in 1623–24. His initial settlement, called Machigonne [ 29 ] and made up of veterans of the Wessagusset Colony on Massachusetts Bay, failed.
1 day ago · Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery. Abolitionism, or the abolitionist movement, is the movement to end slavery and liberate slaves around the world. The first country to fully outlaw slavery was France in 1315, but it was later used in its colonies.
