British forces gave transportation to 10,000 slaves when they evacuated Savannah and Charleston carrying through on their promise. They evacuated and resettled more than 3,000 Black Loyalists from New York to Nova Scotia Upper Canada and Lower Canada Others sailed with the British to England or were resettled as freedmen in the West Indies of the Caribbean But slaves who were carried to the Caribbean under control of Loyalist masters generally remained slaves until British abolition in its colonies in 1834 More than 1,200 of the Black Loyalists of Nova Scotia later resettled in the British colony of Sierra Leone where they became leaders of the Krio ethnic group of Freetown and the later national government Many of their descendants still live in Sierra Leone as well as other African countries. . . . David Davis December 1 1862 December 8 1862, The Smithsonian Institution is an educational foundation chartered by Congress in 1846 that maintains most of the nation's official museums and galleries in Washington D.C the U.S government partially funds the Smithsonian and its collections are open to the public free of charge the Smithsonian's locations had a combined total of 30 million visits in 2013 the most visited museum is the National Museum of Natural History on the National Mall. Other Smithsonian Institution museums and galleries on the mall are: the National Air and Space Museum; the National Museum of African Art; the National Museum of American History; the National Museum of the American Indian; the Sackler and Freer galleries which both focus on Asian art and culture; the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden; the Arts and Industries Building; the S Dillon Ripley Center; and the Smithsonian Institution Building (also known as "The Castle") which serves as the institution's headquarters the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the National Portrait Gallery are housed in the Old Patent Office Building near Washington's Chinatown the Renwick Gallery is officially part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum but is in a separate building near the White House Other Smithsonian museums and galleries include: the Anacostia Community Museum in Southeast Washington; the National Postal Museum near Union Station; and the National Zoo in Woodley Park, Washington was buried in the old Washington family vault at Mount Vernon situated on a grassy slope overspread with willow juniper cypress and chestnut trees it contained the remains of his brother Lawrence and other family members but the decrepit brick vault was in need of repair prompting Washington to leave instructions in his will for the construction of a new vault. Washington's estate at the time of his death was worth an estimated $780,000 in 1799 the value of his estate in 2010 would have been worth $14.3 million. . 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.
. Main article: Culture of Washington D.C With the exception of cases of peonage beyond the period of Reconstruction the federal government took almost no action to enforce the 13th Amendment until December 1941 when President Franklin Delano Roosevelt summoned his attorney general Five days after Pearl Harbor at the request of the president Attorney General Francis Biddle issued Circular No 3591 to all federal prosecutors instructing them to actively investigate and try any case of involuntary servitude or slavery Several months later convict leasing was officially abolished But aspects have persisted in other forms while historians argue that other systems of penal labor were all created in 1865 and convict leasing was simply the most oppressive form. The South developed an agricultural economy dependent on commodity crops Its planters rapidly acquired a significantly higher number and proportion of slaves in the population overall as its commodity crops were labor-intensive. Early on enslaved people in the South worked primarily on farms and plantations growing indigo rice and tobacco; cotton did not become a major crop until after the American Revolution and after the 1790s Before then long-staple cotton was cultivated primarily on the Sea Islands of Georgia and South Carolina! Countries whose capital is not on the coast, Saint-Domingue (French) 8.2% 5 Unusual capital city arrangements, The historian Ira Berlin called this forced migration of slaves the "Second Middle Passage" because it reproduced many of the same horrors as the Middle Passage (the name given to the transportation of slaves from Africa to North America) These sales of slaves broke up many families and caused much hardship Characterizing it as the "central event" in the life of a slave between the American Revolution and the Civil War Berlin wrote that whether slaves were directly uprooted or lived in fear that they or their families would be involuntarily moved "the massive deportation traumatized black people both slave and free." Individuals lost their connection to families and clans Added to the earlier colonists combining slaves from different tribes many ethnic Africans lost their knowledge of varying tribal origins in Africa Most were descended from families who had been in the United States for many generations. Manning Force Rapid Transit WMATA Red.svg WMATA Blue.svg WMATA Orange.svg WMATA Yellow.svg WMATA Green.svg WMATA Silver.svg!
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