District of Columbia retrocession is the act of returning some or all of the land that had been ceded to the federal government of the United States for...

Examples: District of Columbia retrocession, the retrocession to Virginia, and potentially to Maryland, of the land ceded to create the District of Columbia Retrocession...

District of Columbia home rule is the District of Columbia residents' ability to govern their local affairs. The District is the federal capital; as such...

return of the portion of the District south and west of the Potomac River to Virginia in 1846 (see: District of Columbia retrocession). The District of Columbia...

Mark David (Spring–Summer 2004). "The Debates over the Retrocession of the District of Columbia, 1801–2004" (PDF). Washington History: 54–82. Archived...

of Maryland and Virginia in accordance with the Residence Act; however, in 1846, the retrocession of the District of Columbia, meant that the area of...

reuniting the District of Columbia with the state of Maryland is referred to as retrocession. The District was originally formed out of parts of both Maryland...

returned to the state of Virginia in 1846. See: District of Columbia retrocession ^[b] Data provided by "District of Columbia - Race and Hispanic Origin:...

proposals to statehood include the retrocession of the District of Columbia and voting rights reforms. If the District of Columbia were to become a state, it...

of Columbia retrocession of Alexandria and Alexandria County to Virginia. National Smithsonian Institution established. 1848 Cornerstone of the Washington...

presidential candidate Jo Jorgensen David Krucoff (independent), District of Columbia retrocession activist Amir Lowery (independent), former Major League Soccer...

the first Poet Laureate of the District of Columbia, wrote the poem, "Remembering Nat Turner" in 1932. The Confessions of Nat Turner (1967), a novel...

formal approval of retrocession, occurred September 7, 1846. The circuit court, district court, and criminal court of the District of Columbia were finally...

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Quadrants of Washington, D.C.. District of Columbia retrocession Adam Froehlig (March 18, 2011). "How much land is...

Shockoe Hill neighborhood (later known as the Court End District), and was two blocks north of the Virginia State Capitol. Among his neighbors were U.S...

an Angolan-born man who achieved wealth in the early 17th-century Colony of Virginia. Held as an indentured servant in 1621, he earned his freedom after...

was a planned slave rebellion in the Richmond, Virginia, area in the summer of 1800. Information regarding the revolt was leaked before its execution, and...

Virginia with the District of Columbia retrocession. Once again a part of Virginia, Alexandria's slave trading business was secure. One of the main reasons...

from Virginia and Maryland, 1790. District of Columbia retrocession; the return to Virginia of the District of Columbia lands which Virginia had originally...

 208, 215. Rothbard, Murray (1962). The Panic of 1819: Reactions and Policies (PDF). New York: Columbia University Press. p. 12. Dangerfield 1965, pp...

The history of Washington, D.C., is tied to its role as the capital of the United States. The site of the District of Columbia along the Potomac River...

Slave Codes of 1705 (formally entitled An act concerning Servants and Slaves), were a series of laws enacted by the Colony of Virginia's House of Burgesses...

1897) was an enslaved man from Virginia who escaped to freedom at the age of 33 by arranging to have himself mailed in a wooden crate in 1849 to abolitionists...

Washington was the primary leader in the African-American community and of the contemporary Black elite. Born into slavery on April 5, 1856, in Hale's...

1665) was one of the first Black people in the Thirteen Colonies to sue for freedom from slavery and win. Key won her freedom and that of her infant son...

list of plantations and/or plantation houses in the U.S. state of Virginia that are National Historic Landmarks, listed on the National Register of Historic...

one of the first enslaved Africans to be officially recorded in the Colony of Virginia in 1619. Angela's early life is little known, and her date of birth...

William Tucker (b. c. 1624) was a Virginia-born child to two of the first Africans in Virginia who landed in Jamestown Colony before his birth. He was...

known for most of his life as Gustavus Vassa (/ˈvæsə/), was a writer and abolitionist. According to his memoir, he was from the village of Essaka in modern...

Hill, transported enslaved Americans of African descent to slave markets in the Southern United States. At the start of the American Civil War, Bruin was...