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District of Columbia
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Abraham Lincoln & Freedom
District of Columbia
Until the Civil War, the nation’s capital was a center of the slave trade. Lincoln biographer Paul Findley wrote that when Mr. Lincoln served in Congress, “The District was one of the busiest transfer points for slaves. They were often…”
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