Tag: slavery
What Did an Alexandria Slave Pen Look Like
The sad truth is that slave pens existed in and around all of Washington. This photo shows one of those in Alexandria during the...
D.C. Emancipation Act: April 16th, 1862
This week celebrates the 152nd anniversary of the D.C. Emancipation Act, which ended slavery in the District of Columbia and came eight months before...
Slave Market of America
Below is a fascinating old broadside that we came across in the Library of Congress archives.
Here is the description ...
A broadside condemning the sale...
1916 Convention of Ex-Slaves in D.C.
What an unbelievably powerful photo that speaks for itself. Click on it for a more detailed version.
Below is an article published by the Washington...
Making Sense of D.C. Taxes in 1840
I'm reading a very interesting book about Washington published in 1840 titled "A Picture of Washington." I just got to the part where it...
![Washington, D.C., 1920. "Gripp, Mathew, [Nathan] Lahn, Troske -- Gallaudet U." Gridiron stars of the first college for the deaf, credited with inventing the football huddle in the 1920s as a way to keep its signed plays secret.](https://s3.amazonaws.com/ghostsofdc/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/27163855/SHORPY_29576u1-100x70.jpg "Gallaudet Football Invents the Huddle")
