FRANKLIN & ARMFIELD Territorial government A separate British force captured Alexandria on the south side of the Potomac River while Ross's troops were leaving Washington the mayor of Alexandria made a deal and the British refrained from burning the town. In the 1830s the District's southern territory of Alexandria went into economic decline partly due to neglect by Congress the city of Alexandria was a major market in the American slave trade and pro-slavery residents feared that abolitionists in Congress would end slavery in the District further depressing the economy Alexandria's citizens petitioned Virginia to take back the land it had donated to form the District through a process known as retrocession. Ottawa Ontario Canada (1857) Washington D.C. Business Directory, 5.1 Institutions formed by Founders After 1830 abolitionist and minister William Lloyd Garrison promoted emancipation characterizing slaveholding as a personal sin He demanded that slaveowners repent and start the process of emancipation His position increased defensiveness on the part of some southerners who noted the long history of slavery among many cultures a few abolitionists such as John Brown favored the use of armed force to foment uprisings among the slaves as he did at Harper's Ferry Most abolitionists tried to raise public support to change laws and to challenge slave laws Abolitionists were active on the lecture circuit in the North and often featured escaped slaves in their presentations the eloquent Frederick Douglass became an important abolitionist leader after escaping from slavery Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) was an international bestseller and aroused popular sentiment against slavery it also provoked the publication of numerous anti-Tom novels by Southerners in the years before the American Civil War.
Enslaved African Americans had not waited for Lincoln before escaping and seeking freedom behind Union lines From early years of the war hundreds of thousands of African Americans escaped to Union lines especially in Union-controlled areas such as Norfolk and the Hampton Roads region in 1862 Virginia Tennessee from 1862 on the line of Sherman's march etc So many African Americans fled to Union lines that commanders created camps and schools for them where both adults and children learned to read and write the American Missionary Association entered the war effort by sending teachers south to such contraband camps for instance establishing schools in Norfolk and on nearby plantations. Notes: Congress is constantly changing and is constantly in flux in recent times the American south and west have gained House seats according to demographic changes recorded by the census and includes more minorities and women although both groups are still underrepresented. While power balances among the different parts of government continue to change the internal structure of Congress is important to understand along with its interactions with so-called intermediary institutions such as political parties civic associations interest groups and the mass media, I-66 in Washington D.C A few nation states have multiple capitals and there are also several states that have no capital Some have a city as the capital but with most government agencies elsewhere! The American Civil War Main Terminal Station of Aerotrain 9 See also 4 Demographics 10 External links!
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