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The Office of the Secretary of the District of Columbia announces the new Digital Archive for the Office of Public Records and Archives. This repository will make historical records from the DC Archives available digitally to the public for historical and genealogical research.

Please visit the site at https://archives.dc.gov

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1350 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Suite 419, Washington, DC 20004
Phone: (202) 727-6306
Fax: (202) 727-3582
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Alternate Number: Notary: (202) 727-3117
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In observance of the 150th anniversary of D.C. emancipation, this panel will focus on slavery, abolition, emancipation, and Senator Henry Wilson, the author of the D.C. Compensated Emancipation Act which freed 3,100 enslaved persons. The panelists will discuss colonization after emancipation; Lincoln and the movement for black resettlement; patriotism and Africa-American service in the Civil War; and the globalization of cheap labor markets in Africa.

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