District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act
GPTKB entity
Statements (64)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| gptkbp:instanceOf |
legislation
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| gptkbp:associatedWith |
African_American_history
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| gptkbp:contributedTo |
end_of_slavery_in_the_U.S.
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| gptkbp:enactedBy |
gptkb:United_States_Congress
none |
| gptkbp:historicalContext |
Civil War era
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| gptkbp:historicalImpact |
set precedent for future emancipation efforts
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| gptkbp:historicalPeriod |
long-term effects on society
impact on future generations impact on civil liberties impact on social justice movements impact on future legislation impact on national identity impact on family structures impact on political landscape moral implications of slavery cultural implications of emancipation effect on labor systems effect on the economy effectiveness of compensation impact on education for freed individuals impact on freed individuals impact on slave owners perception of emancipation in society public funding for compensation relationship between compensation and justice relationship between emancipation and civil rights relationship between freedom and compensation role of government in emancipation role of religion in emancipation role of the federal government in social issues role of women in the abolition movement legacy_of_slavery_in_America relationship_between_North_and_South role_of_African_Americans_in_the_process |
| gptkbp:historicalSignificance |
first federal compensation for emancipation
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| https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label |
District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act
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| gptkbp:influencedBy |
abolitionist movements
Union_victory_in_the_Civil_War |
| gptkbp:isFreeToAttend |
approximately 3,100
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| gptkbp:legacy |
symbol of progress towards equality
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| gptkbp:legalStatus |
law
freed enslaved individuals |
| gptkbp:notableEvent |
gptkb:Civil_Rights_Act_of_1866
Homestead Act Thirteenth Amendment Morrill Act Fifteenth Amendment |
| gptkbp:notableFigures |
gptkb:Frederick_Douglass
gptkb:Charles_Sumner Thaddeus Stevens |
| gptkbp:operates |
District of Columbia
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| gptkbp:partOf |
U.S._history
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| gptkbp:predecessor |
slavery_in_the_District_of_Columbia
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| gptkbp:publicAccess |
mixed reactions
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| gptkbp:purpose |
to_abolish_slavery_in_the_District_of_Columbia
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| gptkbp:relatedEvent |
gptkb:Civil_Rights_Movement
Reconstruction era |
| gptkbp:relatedTo |
Emancipation Proclamation
|
| gptkbp:responsibleFor |
slave owners
|
| gptkbp:resultedIn |
gptkb:end_of_slavery_in_D.C.
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| gptkbp:signature |
gptkb:Abraham_Lincoln
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| gptkbp:significantEvent |
gptkb:slavery_in_the_United_States
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| gptkbp:yearEstablished |
April 16, 1862
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