Jennifer Cromack discovers a lost 1847 anti-slavery resolution by New England ministers in the American Baptist archive.

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

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In 2014, Brown University installed its Slavery Memorial on the Front Green outside University Hall on the Providence campus. The display includes a sculpture of a ball and broken chain, while a ...

Cherokee Nation celebrated Juneteenth this year with the signing of an executive order establishing a task force to examine ...

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, ...

The scroll, titled "A Resolution and Protest Against Slavery," dates to 1847 and was signed by more than 115 Baptist ...