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Challenges in Mexico Washington D.C. Business Directory Montenegro: the official capital Podgorica is home to the parliament and the executive but the seat of the presidency is in the former royal capital of Cetinje! . A mezzotint of Martha Washington standing wearing a formal gown based on a 1757 portrait by John Wollaston. . ! ! To prevent this Arlington held a referendum through which voters petitioned Congress and the state of Virginia to return the portion of the District of Columbia south of the Potomac River (Alexandria County) to Virginia On July 9 1846 Congress retroceded Alexandria County to Virginia after which the District's slave traders relocated to Alexandria.:292 the District's slave trade was outlawed in the Compromise of 1850 the penalty for bringing a slave into the District for sale was freedom for the slave. Southern senators and congressmen resisted banning slavery altogether in the District to avoid setting a precedent the practice remained legal in the District until after secession with the District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act signed by Lincoln on April 16 1862 which established the annual observance of Emancipation Day, Social context 14.3 Military Civil War Era. .

Many derived income from plantations or large farms which they owned or managed which relied upon the labor of enslaved men and women particularly in the southern colonies: Bassett Blair Blount Davie, Johnson Butler Carroll Jefferson Jenifer Madison Mason Charles Pinckney Charles Cotesworth Pinckney Rutledge Spaight and Washington. . .