slave trade abolished in Washington D.C. (20 Sept 1850 Jahr – 28 Sept 2264 Jahr)

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Congress bans slave trade in D.C. Sept. 20, 1850. On this day in 1850, Congress abolished the slave trade in the District of Columbia as part of a legislative package known as the Compromise of 1850. Since the founding of the District of Columbia in 1800, enslaved people had lived and worked in the nation's capital.

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