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

It was signed two years after the issue of slavery prompted southern Baptists to split from northern Baptists and form the Southern Baptist Convention, the nation’s largest Protestant denomination.

Church officials consider it one of the most important abolitionist-era Baptist documents.

It was signed two years after the issue of slavery prompted southern Baptists to split from northern Baptists and form the Southern Baptist Convention, the nation’s largest Protestant denomination.

Anti-slavery document from 1847 reveals American Baptists' commitment to abolition A volunteer searching the archives of the American Baptist in Massachusetts has found a nearly 180-year-old ...

While many states had outlawed slavery, there was still widespread opposition to the idea of nationwide abolition. In the 1830s, said Rael, there were anti-abolitionist riots in New York and ...

Still, the abolitionist movement to end slavery began several decades earlier in eastern Pennsylvania, with abolitionist beliefs present in Susquehanna County dating back to the 1830’s.

Despite the Gradual Abolition Act, “Pennsylvania was the battleground between free and slave, western Pennsylvania especially,” according to Black. Washington, Fayette and Greene counties bordered ...

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.' ...

His campaign was crucial to the British abolition of the slave trade in 1807. The abolition of the slave trade did not end slavery, as a slave economy persisted locally for at least another century.

UK newspaper tied to slavery wants to make amends in Lowcountry communities The API failed to deliver the resource. Representatives of a British newspaper are visiting the Lowcountry and places around ...