DARLINGTON, S.C. (WBTV) - A more than 150-year-old church in South Carolina burned down over the weekend, pictures showed. Pleasant Grove Baptist Church in Darlington caught fire on Saturday, July 19.

The 24th Street Missionary Baptist Church was fully engulfed when firefighters arrived.

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

A volunteer searching the archives of the American Baptist in Massachusetts has found a nearly 180-year-old document shedding light on the church's support for ending slavery. The 5-foot-long ...

Wikimedia Commons The 1865 Freedmen’s Town Settlement at Buffalo Bayou Freedmen’s Town began in 1865 after slaves in Texas ...