Slavery is abolished in the District of Columbia

President Lincoln signed the contentious bill abolishing slavery within the District of Columbia. It was the first federal bill abolishing slavery anywhere in the United States. (By John Osborne)
Source Citation
Joseph Nathan Kane, ed., Famous First Facts (New York: H.W. Wilson Company, 1981), 598.
    Date Certainty
    Exact
    Type
    Slavery/Abolition
    Relevance
    General
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