[Heyworth]

You need to send documented information.

From the Library of Congress website: "Slavery in the District of Columbia ended on April 16, 1862, when President Lincoln signed a law that provided for compensation to slave owners. An Emancipation Claims Commission hired a Baltimore slave trader to assess the value of each freed slave, and awarded compensation for 2,989 slaves."

http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trm009.html

[P-40]

From the Library of Congress website

Thanks. I was looking for that as I remember an exhibit on a government website that even listed names and ages. Fascinating in a way.

[Paige]

And Maryland was considered a slave state until Lincoln arrested the Maryland legislature and stripped them of their Constitutional rights.