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A five-foot-long handwritten scroll from Boston in 1847 titled “A Resolution and Protest Against Slavery”—long thought to ...
A volunteer searching the archives of the American Baptist in Massachusetts has found a nearly 180-year-old document shedding ...
Gil Rose talks all about bringing Ulysses Kay’s "Frederick Douglass" back to life along with the work of other Black composers.
There is an exciting new addition on display at the National Museum of African-American History and Culture in Washington, ...
On the anniversary of America’s independence, the abolitionist leader Frederick Douglass made a biblical Psalm – Psalm 137 – ...
“Negro Life at the South," an 1859 painting by Eastman Johnson, depicted enslaved people in a D.C. courtyard. Intended to humanize them, it was coopted by slavery defenders.
Alan Dettlaff is Mexican American, an abolitionist, and a professor at the University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work, where he also served as Dean through 2022. Alan began his career ...
Monroe County Executive Adam Bello said the millions of travelers who pass through the airport each year will be able to ...
A new biography of the iconic abolitionist and activist hopes to add nuance and complexity to Tubman and her legacy of freedom and service. Written by Harvard University Prof. Tiya Miles, ...
Being an abolitionist, for me, is not about smugly or dismissively proclaiming that people shouldn’t be scared. (I don’t know any abolitionists who dismissively proclaim this, although this is the ...
Black abolitionist Henry Highland Garnet, who lived on Long Island, helped shape the country's views on slavery Henry Highland Garnet, abolitionist, minister, educator and orator, in an 1881 ...
Jennifer Cromack was combing through the American Baptist archive when she uncovered a slim box among some 18th and 19th ...