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Hurricanes (or their remnants) occasionally track through the area in late summer and early fall but are often weak by the time they reach Washington partly due to the city's inland location. Flooding of the Potomac River however caused by a combination of high tide storm surge and runoff has been known to cause extensive property damage in the neighborhood of Georgetown, Amistad seizure (1839) Once the trip ended slaves faced a life on the frontier significantly different from most labor in the Upper South Clearing trees and starting crops on virgin fields was harsh and backbreaking work a combination of inadequate nutrition bad water and exhaustion from both the journey and the work weakened the newly arrived slaves and produced casualties New plantations were located at rivers' edges for ease of transportation and travel Mosquitoes and other environmental challenges spread disease which took the lives of many slaves They had acquired only limited immunities to lowland diseases in their previous homes the death rate was so high that in the first few years of hewing a plantation out of the wilderness some planters preferred whenever possible to use rented slaves rather than their own. .

. . . The nature of slavery in Cherokee society often mirrored that of white slave-owning society the law barred intermarriage of Cherokees and enslaved African Americans but Cherokee men had unions with enslaved women resulting in mixed-race children. Cherokee who aided slaves were punished with one hundred lashes on the back in Cherokee society persons of African descent were barred from holding office even if they were also racially and culturally Cherokee They were also barred from bearing arms and owning property the Cherokee prohibited teaching African Americans to read and write, Union of South American Nations: Cochabamba and Quito, Of the District's population 17% is Baptist 13% is Catholic 6% is evangelical Protestant 4% is Methodist 3% is Episcopalian/Anglican 3% is Jewish 2% is Eastern Orthodox 1% is Pentecostal 1% is Buddhist 1% is Adventist 1% is Lutheran 1% is Muslim 1% is Presbyterian 1% is Mormon and 1% is Hindu.[g]! , 5.3 In stage and film 1860 75,080 45.3%, Slavery Destination Percentage 5.2 Joint sessions. . See also: George Washington and slavery and Thomas Jefferson and slavery, Secession and inauguration Main article: Siege of Boston, The South Branch Potomac River has its headwaters in northwestern Highland County Virginia near Hightown along the eastern edge of the Allegheny Front After a river distance of 139 miles (224 km) the mouth of the South Branch lies east of Green Spring in Hampshire County West Virginia where it meets the North Branch Potomac River to form the Potomac.