How do you capture a man who protested slavery so loudly and boldly in 1700s Philadelphia that he was kicked out of his Quaker congregation — an abolitionist who was written off as an eccentric little ...

Advisory: This story includes descriptions of abuse and oppression of Black people, which were the norm in colonial-era Boston. The Old South Meeting House is renowned as a gathering spot for ...

The year is 1697. The place, Boston's Old South Church. Samuel Sewall stands silently as his statement admitting guilt is read aloud to the audience. The statement is an apology for his role as one of ...

Two businessmen’s unusual conversion in 1700s South Carolina led them to liberate the people they put in bondage. At first glance, William Turpin and his business partner, Thomas Wadsworth, appeared ...

When Paul Revere took one of the most famous rides in American history to alert troops that, "The British were coming," he did so by hanging two lanterns in the bell tower of the Old North Church in ...

As the oldest continuously published newspaper in America, the Hartford Courant is an unbroken record of our ongoing history: from 13 colonies to 50 states, telegrams to iPhones, and smallpox to COVID ...

GREENVILLE, S.C. (FOX Carolina) -In Roebuck, at the Walnut Grove Plantation, you will find the oldest home in Spartanburg County, dating back to the early 1700s, and funding has just come through for ...

Nantes, a city that prospered from maritime trade but for more than a century it was also France’s largest slave-trading port ...