In a story published July 3, 2025 about an anti-slavery scroll, The Associated Press erroneously reported the document shed ...

A volunteer searching the archives of the American Baptist in Massachusetts has found a nearly 180-year-old document shedding ...

These enduring foundations of the United States of America have ties to the institution of slavery A country’s racist past ...

Books & the Arts / Robin Blackburn’s sweeping history of slavery and freedom in the second half of the 19th century. Manisha Sinha Robin Blackburn is undoubtedly one of the most prolific writers ...

Initial efforts to locate a 19th century anti-slavery scroll were unsuccessful — until they looked in a church closet.

In early and mid-2025, a claim that "only 1.6% of US citizens owned slaves in 1860" resurfaced and circulated widely online, ...

History | January 2020. Scenes From a Reenactment of a Slave Uprising. Earlier this year, a group of organizers led by a daring performance artist donned 19th-century clothes and recreated the ...

For nearly two centuries, the Danish West Indies were entangled in the brutal Atlantic Slave Trade, which saw the forced ...

Jennifer Cromack was combing through the American Baptist archive when she uncovered a slim box among some 18th and 19th ...

A talk held at the Dales Countryside Museum in Hawes has revealed fresh evidence of local involvement in all aspects of the ...

By the early 19th century, slavery appeared to be mostly on its way out. The British Empire and the United States had both abolished the African slave trade in 1808.