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Black Americans constituted about one-fifth of the population prior to the Civil War and one-third after. By 1970, the population of the District of Columbia was 70 percent black. Slavery was abolished in the District of Columbia in 1862. Records of slave emancipations and manumissions from 1851 to 1863 are listed in the Family History Library Catalog Place Search under DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA - SLAVERY AND BONDAGE. Additional records on blacks are in the National Archives. | Black Americans constituted about one-fifth of the population prior to the Civil War and one-third after. By 1970, the population of the District of Columbia was 70 percent black. Slavery was abolished in the District of Columbia in 1862. Records of slave emancipations and manumissions from 1851 to 1863 are listed in the Family History Library Catalog Place Search under DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA - SLAVERY AND BONDAGE. Additional records on blacks are in the National Archives. | ||
Foreign and domestic birthplaces of members of a nineteenth-century District of Columbia private association are identified in records of The Association of Oldest Inhabitants of the District of Columbia, which is deposited at The Historical Society of Washington, D.C. (MSS. 422) and has also been published: | Foreign and domestic birthplaces of members of a nineteenth-century District of Columbia private association are identified in records of The Association of Oldest Inhabitants of the District of Columbia, which is deposited at The Historical Society of Washington, D.C. (MSS. 422) and has also been published: | ||
*Gart, Jeanne Brooks. "The Association of Oldest Inhabitants of the District of Columbia," ''National Genealogical Society Quarterly'', Vol. 82, No. 4 (December 1994):292-295. {{FHL|39597|item|disp=FHL Book 973 B2ng}} | *Gart, Jeanne Brooks. "The Association of Oldest Inhabitants of the District of Columbia," ''National Genealogical Society Quarterly'', Vol. 82, No. 4 (December 1994):292-295. {{FHL|39597|item|disp=FHL Book 973 B2ng}} | ||
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The port of entry in the District of Columbia was Georgetown, but most ship passengers whose official arrival records date from 1800 landed at Baltimore and Philadelphia. The [[Family History Library]] and the [[National Archives and Records Administration|National Archives]] have passenger lists for Georgetown only for the years 1820 and 1821 ({{FHL|830234}}). More detailed information on immigration sources is in the [[United States]] set of Wiki pages. | The port of entry in the District of Columbia was Georgetown, but most ship passengers whose official arrival records date from 1800 landed at Baltimore and Philadelphia. The [[Family History Library]] and the [[National Archives and Records Administration|National Archives]] have passenger lists for Georgetown only for the years 1820 and 1821 ({{FHL|830234}}). More detailed information on immigration sources is in the [[United States]] set of Wiki pages. | ||
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