wrote François Le Mercier, Jesuit superior in Québec. Jean-Baptiste Colbert, wanted the already established colonies, such as New France to grow: "The King has formed companies, which like the ...

and other fortifications that subsequently surrounded the city serve as a rock-solid reminder of its role in the colonial wars for control of the Americas. The city was the capital of New France ...

The American Colonization Society ... a Presbyterian minister from Basking Ridge, New Jersey. Finley believed that blacks would never be fully integrated into American society and that they ...