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The District of Columbia, slave market of America. Includes Alexandria slave dealers. American Anti-Slavery Society, 1836.. In the District of Columbia, the slave trade was legal from its creation until it was outlawed as part of the Compromise of 1850.
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 Emancipation Act or simply Compensated Emancipation Act, was a law that ended slavery in the District of Columbia, while providing slave owners who remained loyal to the United States in the then ...
Only in the District of Columbia, which fell under direct Federal auspices, was compensated emancipation enacted. On April 16, 1862, President Lincoln signed the District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act. This law prohibited slavery in the District, forcing its 900-odd slaveholders to free their slaves, with the federal government ...
This is a list of slave traders working in the District of Columbia from 1776 until 1865, including traders operating in Alexandria, Virginia before the establishment of the District in 1800 and after the retrocession in 1847: James H. Birch, District of Columbia and Alexandria, Va. [1] Jack Brinkley [2]
The abolition of the slave trade in the District of Columbia [to be prohibited by the Compromise of 1850], The prohibition of the slave trade between the states, The abolition of slavery in the Territory of Florida, The abolition of slavery and the slave trade in all the other territories of the United States, The refusal to admit any new slave ...
Slavery in the District of Columbia; 0–9. 1838 Jesuit slave sale; B. James H. Birch (slave trader) C. Compensated emancipation; D. District of Columbia (until 1871)
The District of Columbia compensated emancipation of 1862–63 was the only such program in the United States. [8] Baltimore slave trader Bernard M. Campbell provided the appraisals to the commission; the highest valued person was a blacksmith deemed to be worth $1800, the lowest valued person was a two-month-old mulatto baby appraised at $25. [8]
The District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act represents the only example of compensation by the federal government to former owners of emancipated slaves. [ 52 ] On 4 January 2005, Mayor Anthony A. Williams signed legislation making Emancipation Day an official public holiday in the District. [ 53 ]