restrictions on slavery in the District were probably coming was a major factor in the retrocession of the Virginia part of the District back to Virginia in 1847...
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In a plan endorsed by Abraham Lincoln, slavery in the District of Columbia, which the Southern contingent had protected, was abolished in 1862. The Union-occupied...
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Washington, D.C. (redirect from Economy of the District of Columbia)
formally the District of Columbia and commonly called Washington or D.C., is the capital city and federal district of the United States. The city is on the Potomac...
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slavery in the District of Columbia. History of slavery in Alaska History of slavery in Colorado History of slavery in Montana History of slavery in Nebraska...
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The District of Columbia was created in 1801 as the federal district of the United States, with territory previously held by the states of Maryland and...
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as the District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act or simply Compensated Emancipation Act, was a law that ended slavery in the District of Columbia...
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The District of Columbia has a mayor–council government that operates under Article One of the United States Constitution and the District of Columbia...
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Gag rule (United States) (redirect from Slavery gag rule)
called in the South. There was a special focus on slavery in the District of Columbia, where policy was a federal, rather than state, matter. The petitions...
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trying to decide whether to end slavery in the District of Columbia. Many abolitionists emphasized the sinfulness of slave owners, but Lincoln did not...
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21st Rule (category Slavery in the United States)
hundreds of petitions relating to the abolition of slavery, slavery in the District of Columbia, fugitive slave laws and fugitive slaves, the admission of slave...
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James H. Birch (slave trader) (category History of slavery in the District of Columbia)
trader in the District of Columbia. In 1837, Dorcas Allen and her four children were put up for sale by her old owner's wife's new husband. While in Birch's...
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trade in 1808, prohibited the slave trade in the District of Columbia in 1850, outlawed slavery in the District of Columbia in 1862, and, with the Thirteenth...
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Capitol from his cell in the Williams' dungeon. History of slavery in the District of Columbia Slave markets and slave jails in the United States Forret...
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Compensated emancipation (category History of slavery in the District of Columbia)
President Lincoln signed the District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act. This law prohibited slavery in the District, forcing its 900-odd slaveholders...
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abolitionism Lists of United States public officials who owned slaves Slavery in the District of Columbia Treatment of slaves in the United States Polk...
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Emancipation Day (redirect from Emancipation Day In Texas)
In much of the formerly British territories in the Caribbean Emancipation Day is marked on August 1, commemorating the anniversary of the Slavery Abolition...
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Jilson Dove (category History of slavery in the District of Columbia)
as a sergeant in the District of Columbia militia during the War of 1812. In 1813, when he was about 28 years old, he announced in the newspaper that...
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The legal institution of human chattel slavery, comprising the enslavement primarily of Africans and African Americans, was prevalent in the United States...
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Crittenden Compromise (category United States slavery law)
slavery in the District of Columbia so long as it existed in the adjoining states of Virginia and Maryland and without the consent of the District's inhabitants...
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statehood for the District of Columbia. Within a month Colorado, Nevada, and Dakota Territory followed. The end of slavery in the District of Columbia had been...
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Slave states and free states (category Expansion of slavery in the United States)
by Abraham Lincoln, slavery in the District of Columbia, which the Southern contingent had protected, was abolished in 1862. In Southern states, freedom...
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Harrisville, Ohio (category Villages in Harrison County, Ohio)
thirty-five women called on Congress to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia, and for "immediate enfranchisement of every human being that shall tread this...
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Dumbarton House (category History of slavery in the District of Columbia)
approximately an acre of gardens on the northern edge of Georgetown, District of Columbia. The house is listed on the National Register of Historic Places....
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abolitionism Slavery in the District of Columbia Finkelman, Paul (2018). Supreme Injustice: Slavery in the Nation's Highest Court. The Nathan I. Huggins...
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The early history of slavery in the Indian subcontinent is contested because it depends on the translations of terms such as dasa and dasyu. Greek writer...
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Washington Robey (category History of slavery in the District of Columbia)
proprietor in early 19th-century Washington City, District of Columbia. Robey was deemed a "resident of this city" by the Washington Gazette at the time of his...
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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...
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1838 Jesuit slave sale (redirect from 1838 Society of Jesus slave sale)
of slavery in Louisiana Catholic Church and slavery The Corporation of Roman Catholic Clergymen was created in 1792 to preserve the property of the suppressed...
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Slavery in Virginia began with the capture and enslavement of Native Americans during the early days of the English Colony of Virginia and through the...
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abolitionism List of slave owners Slavery in the District of Columbia Slavery in the United States Treatment of slaves in the United States ""This Deplorable...
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