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...

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...

The District of Columbia has a mayor–council government that operates under Article One of the United States Constitution and the District of Columbia...

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...

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...

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...

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...

trying to decide whether to end slavery in the District of Columbia. Many abolitionists emphasized the sinfulness of slave owners, but Lincoln did not...

as the District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act or simply Compensated Emancipation Act, was a law that ended slavery in the District of Columbia...

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...

In much of the formerly British territories in the Caribbean Emancipation Day is marked on 1 August, commemorating the anniversary of the Slavery Abolition...

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...

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...

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...

of presidents of the United States Abolitionism in the United States District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act (1862), which ended slavery in...

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...

The legal institution of human chattel slavery, comprising the enslavement primarily of Africans and African Americans, was prevalent 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Slavery as a positive good in the United States was the prevailing view of Southern politicians and intellectuals just before the American Civil War,...

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...

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...

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...

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....

groups. The social, economic, and legal positions of slaves have differed vastly in different systems of slavery in different times and places. Slavery has...

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...

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...