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

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

Cherokee Nation Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin Jr. on June 19 signed an Executive Order establishing the “Task Force to Examine ...

In 19th-century Virginia, her great-great-grandfather faced a ‘fearsome’ choice By Bobbi Bowman / Special to The (Lynchburg) News & Advance Feb 20, 2018 ...

A physically and intellectually imposing figure whose heart “bled for abolition, racial justice, and constitutional democracy,” Sumner pushed U.S. presidents and Senate colleagues alike to end slavery ...

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

Hulu’s first look at Washington Black opens on a lush Barbados sugar plantation, where 11-year-old George Washington “Wash” ...

Several communities in the region have Juneteenth events, and at the Rokeby Museum in Ferrisburgh, organizers say there is an ...

"Modern descriptions of American slavery often paint the North as slavery-free, abolitionist states, but this isn’t true." ...

Juneteenth celebrates when Union soldiers arrived to Galveston to announce to over 250,000 enslaved people they were freed in 1865.