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...

uniting 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...

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...

to the District of Columbia. He leased Nomony plantation and its servants to his son J.T. on April 26, 1793 (expressly conditional to the Deed of Gift)...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

He is historically best known as the father-in-law of Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States. Wayles married three times, with these...

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...

 1670) was an Angolan man who achieved wealth in the early 17th-century Colony of Virginia. Held as an indentured servant in 1621, he earned his freedom after...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

partnership of Franklin & Armfield to buy slaves in the Upper South: the mid-Atlantic states (Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, and the District of Columbia), where...

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

family in Virginia, with Robert Brent becoming the first mayor of the District of Columbia). The Huntons had initially settled in Lancaster County, Virginia...

of Columbia Public Service Commission District of Columbia Republican Party District of Columbia retrocession District of Columbia Route 4 District of...

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...

coastal areas of the United States in the antebellum years prior to 1861. Hundreds of vessels of various capacities domestically traded loads of slaves along...

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...