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.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Compromise of 1850 admitted California in the Union as a free state; the former Mexican territories were admitted as part slaveholding states and part free soilers states; and the slave trade in the District of Columbia was abolished.

Detailed explanation-4: -2, 072 District of Columbia residents were enslaved according to the 1800 census. Carved out of two slave states, the city quickly became a hub for the domestic slave trade. As the tobacco industry in the Upper South fell into decline, so did the need for large numbers of agricultural laborers.