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Shortly after Crandall's opening an office in Georgetown, slave catchers reported him for possession of abolitionist literature, and Key wrote a lengthy indictment, charging him with "seditious libel and inciting slaves and free blacks to revolt". Key thought he would gain politically by "finally doing something about the abolitionists".
Robey's 7th and 9th Street taverns and slave jails were pictured on this 1836 map produced by the American Anti-Slavery Society; the 7th Street property is listed as Neal's Jail 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 ...
Daily National Intelligencer and Washington Express, December 16, 1829 Robey's 7th and 9th Street taverns and slave jails were pictured on this 1836 map produced by the American Anti-Slavery Society; the 7th Street property is listed as Neal's Jail View of Washington in 1852, showing Maryland Avenue between the U.S. Capitol and the Potomac ...
Oak Hill Cemetery Chapel, designed by James Renwick Jr. in 1850, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Old Stone House, built 1765, is the oldest building structure still standing in Washington, D.C. Georgetown, depicted in 1862, shows the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal and Aqueduct Bridge (on right) and an unfinished Capitol dome in the distant ...
William H. Williams advertisement for his slave-trading service and private jail at the Yellow House" (Daily National Intelligencer and Washington Express, September 27, 1838) Map produced by the American Anti-Slavery Society showing some slave jails in Washington D.C. 1836; the Yellow House was across the street from the site marked as Neal's jail, [1] location covered up with the "Am I not a ...
Georgetown University students voted in favor of paying reparations to the descendants of slaves that the school sold in the 1800s when it was in debt.
Georgetown will offer an admissions edge to descendants of slaves as part of a comprehensive atonement for the university's historical ties to slavery.
Holy Rood Cemetery is located at 2126 Wisconsin Avenue N.W. at the southern end of Glover Park, adjacent to Georgetown in Washington, D.C. It is at one of the highest elevations in the city and has memorable views. The cemetery contains approximately 7,000 burials, including as many as 1,000 free and enslaved African Americans. It may be the ...