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    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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    the District of Columbia and commonly known as 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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    Southern contingent in 1861, was generally anti-slavery. In a plan endorsed by Abraham Lincoln, slavery in the District of Columbia, which the Southern contingent...
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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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    In much of the formerly British territories in the Caribbean Emancipation Day is marked on 1 August, commemorating the anniversary of the Slavery Abolition...
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    Compensated emancipation (category History of slavery in the District of Columbia)
    ever put in place. Only the District of Columbia, which was under federal control, used compensated emancipation as part of ending slavery in 1862. Owners...
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    James H. Birch (slave trader) (category History of slavery in the District of Columbia)
    trader in the District of Columbia. He was most active as a trader in the 1830s and 1840s and was infamously involved in the imprisonment of Dorcas Allen...
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    of presidents of the United States Abolitionism in the United States District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act (1862), which ended slavery in...
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    the transatlantic slave trade in 1808, prohibited the slave trade in the District of Columbia in 1850, outlawed slavery in the District of Columbia in...
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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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    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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    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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    Pearl incident (category History of slavery in the District of Columbia)
    would capture the attention of Congress and the country to promote an end to slavery in the District of Columbia. White supporters included the abolitionists...
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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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    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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  • 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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    Slavery as a positive good in the United States was the prevailing view of Southern politicians and intellectuals just before the American Civil War,...
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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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    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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    the Legal Tender Act of 1862, and the end of slavery in the District of Columbia. The Revenue Act of 1861 introduced income tax to help finance the war...
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    Sexual slavery and sexual exploitation is an attachment of any ownership right over one or more people with the intent of coercing or otherwise forcing...
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  • 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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    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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    groups. The social, economic, and legal positions of slaves have differed vastly in different systems of slavery in different times and places. Slavery has...
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