USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -DC Abolishes the Slave Trade. The United States Congress abolished the slave trade in the District of Columbia on September 20, 1850, as part of the legislative package called 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.

Detailed explanation-2: -Slavery remained legal in the District until April 16, 1862, when President Abraham Lincoln signed into law an act abolishing slavery in the District of Columbia (12 Stat. 376).

Detailed explanation-3: -Nat Turner’s insurrection of 1831, the Snow Riot of 1835, the Pearl Affair and Riot of 1848, and the 1850 Compromise were all contributing forces that had an impact on slavery in the District. In 1848, the House of Representative passed a resolution to prohibit the slave trade in the District of Columbia.

Detailed explanation-4: -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 a major factor in the retrocession of the Virginia part of the District back to Virginia in 1847.