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

by Julian Davis Not many people have heard of Barbuda. The 62-square-mile island in the Caribbean with a population of roughly 1,800 is one of two that compose the nation of Antigua and Barbuda. The ...

Slavery, abolition in 19th century Maine topic of Feb. 6 Zoom talk Gardner, of Alna, will discuss her upcoming book, 'The Divided North: Black and White Families in the Age of Slavery.' ...

Lincoln hated slavery but he was not an abolitionist, according to Civil War historian and author James Oakes in his latest book, “The Crooked Path to Abolition: Abraham Lincoln and the ...

Anti-slave trade leaders Tho­mas Clarkson, Granville Sharp and William Wilberforce campaigned for the Slavery Abolition Act, which was passed in England in 1787.

Emancipation Day, a day of profound historical and cultural significance, is celebrated on August 1 of each year. The annual commemoration honors the abolition of slavery in the British Empire, which ...

This is the story of Pennsylvania’s 200-year-long struggle for emancipation. From the Quaker principles of its early settlers to the Free African Society and the fiery activism of John Brown ...