District of Columbia: History incorporates 251 years of slavery.

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List of slave holders/slave owners and slaves in 1864 Paid for emancipation in Washington DC area.
Original Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury 1864 of the above
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See also Compensation Emancipation in the District of Columbia by Dorothy Provine. Willow Bend Books