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Jennifer Cromack was combing through the American Baptist archive when she uncovered a slim box among some 18th and 19th ...
A volunteer searching the archives of the American Baptist Churches in Massachusetts has found a nearly 180-year-old document ...
In a story published July 3, 2025 about an anti-slavery scroll, The Associated Press erroneously reported the document shed light on the debate over slavery in ...
These enduring foundations of the United States of America have ties to the institution of slavery A country’s racist past ...
The July 4, 1910 title fight between Jack Johnson and Jim Jeffries led to riots, mayhem, murder — and the racially motivated ...
Jennifer Cromack was combing through the American Baptist archive when she uncovered a slim box among some 18th and 19th ...
The Western is never going out of cinematic style, no matter what, so let's talk about the one that was voted the greatest of ...
For nearly two centuries, the Danish West Indies were entangled in the brutal Atlantic Slave Trade, which saw the forced ...
The plan up until last Tuesday was to move the building during the construction of the new county courthouse. Project managers told the Botetourt County Board of Supervisors that this won’t be ...
Between 1632 and 1760, records show that 734 Indigenous children were enslaved in France's North American colony, historian ...
In the late 19th century, studies of oyster grounds were rare, and scientific surveys almost always occurred after the habitat had been destroyed. Low densities of oysters became the scientific norm.
The Williamsburg Bray School, now part of Colonial Williamsburg, taught free and enslaved Black children for several years in ...