An Act for the Release of certain Persons held to Service or Labor in the District of Columbia, 37th Cong., Sess. 2, ch. 54, 12 Stat. 376, known colloquially as the District of Columbia Compensated Em
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In the District of Columbia, the slave trade was legal from its creation until it was outlawed as part of the Compromise of 1850. That restrictions on slavery in the District were probably coming was
District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act
…12 Stat. 376, known colloquially as the District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act or simply Compensated Emancipation Act, was a law that ended slavery in the District of Columbia, while providing enslavers who remained loyal to the United States in the then-ongoing Civil War the ability to petition for compensation. Although not…
The District of Columbia, slave market of America. Includes Alexandria slave dealers. American Anti-Slavery Society, 1836.
Celebration by "the colored people in Washington" of the fourth anniversary of the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia, April 19, 1866
Main section of Tragic Prelude, a mural by John Steuart Curry in the Kansas State Capitol
Cover of Speech of Hon. Horace Mann, of Massachusetts, on slavery and the slave-trade in the District of Columbia, delivered in the House of Representatives of the United States, February 23, 1849, printed by Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society