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4 Demographics Importation of slaves, California campaign File:The United States Legislative Process - Committee Consideration (3) - Library of Congress.webm, Washington Crossing the Delaware December 25 1776 Emanuel Leutze (1851)[k] Slaveholders included people of African ancestry an African former indentured servant who settled in Virginia in 1621 Anthony Johnson became one of the earliest documented slave owners in the mainland American colonies when he won a civil suit for ownership of John Casor in 1830 there were 3,775 such black slaveholders in the South who owned a total of 12,760 slaves a small percent out of a total of over 2 million slaves. 80% of the black slaveholders were located in Louisiana South Carolina Virginia and Maryland. . . Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions Further information: History of Washington D.C.; Timeline of Washington D.C.; and District of Columbia (until 1871) General McClellan. It is likely that had he lived Lincoln would have followed a policy similar to Johnson's that he would have clashed with congressional Radicals that he would have produced a better result for the freedmen than occurred and that his political skills would have helped him avoid Johnson's mistakes. The Potomac River in Washington D.C with Arlington Memorial Bridge in the foreground and Rosslyn Arlington Virginia in the background.

. An average of approximately 486 million US gallons (1,840,000 m3) of water is withdrawn daily from the Potomac in the Washington area for water supply providing about 78 percent of the region's total water usage this amount includes approximately 80 percent of the drinking water consumed by the region's estimated 6,100,000 residents. . . . .