A scroll where Baptist ministers took an early stand against slavery has been rediscovered in Groton, Massachusetts. The ...

We begin our July Fourth special broadcast with the words of Frederick Douglass. Born into slavery around 1818, Douglass ...

American slavery wasn’t just a white man’s business − new research shows how white women profited, too Trevon Logan, The Ohio State University Thu, January 2, 2025 at 8:27 PM UTC ...

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

Harvard University will relinquish 175-year-old photographs believed to be the earliest taken of enslaved people to a South Carolina museum devoted to African American history as part of a ...

It was, in essence, an early feminist institution – but exclusively for white women. A lasting myth The myth that women didn’t profit from slavery has endured for several reasons.