. Foundation The south bank of the Potomac River forms the District's border with Virginia and has two major tributaries: the Anacostia River and Rock Creek. Tiber Creek a natural watercourse that once passed through the National Mall was fully enclosed underground during the 1870s the creek also formed a portion of the now-filled Washington City Canal which allowed passage through the city to the Anacostia River from 1815 until the 1850s the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal starts in Georgetown and was used during the 19th century to bypass the Little Falls of the Potomac River located at the northwest edge of Washington at the Atlantic Seaboard fall line. The founding fathers were not unified on the issue of slavery in her study of Thomas Jefferson historian Annette Gordon-Reed discusses this topic "Others of the founders held slaves but no other founder drafted the charter for freedom" in addition to Jefferson George Washington John Jay and many other of the Founding Fathers practiced slavery but were also conflicted by the institution which many saw as immoral and politically divisive. Conversely many founders such as Samuel Adams and John Adams were against slavery their entire lives Benjamin Rush wrote a pamphlet in 1773 which harshly condemned slavery and beseeched the colonists to petition the king and put an end to the British African Company of Merchants which kept slavery and the slave trade going the Continental Association of 1774 contains a clause severely limiting the slave trade as part of the general boycott of British trade, Sports Other professional and semi-professional teams in Washington include: Old Glory DC (Major League Rugby) the Washington Kastles (World TeamTennis); the Washington D.C Slayers (USA Rugby League); the Baltimore Washington Eagles (U.S Australian Football League); the D.C Divas (Independent Women's Football League); and the Potomac Athletic Club RFC (Rugby Super League) the William H.G FitzGerald Tennis Center in Rock Creek Park hosts the Citi Open Washington is also home to two major annual marathon races: the Marine Corps Marathon which is held every autumn and the Rock 'n' Roll USA Marathon held in the spring the Marine Corps Marathon began in 1976 and is sometimes called "The People's Marathon" because it is the largest marathon that does not offer prize money to participants. . .
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