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According to Andrew Fede a master could be held criminally liable for killing a slave only if the slave he killed was "completely submissive and under the master's absolute control" for example in 1791 the North Carolina legislature defined the willful killing of a slave as criminal murder unless done in resisting or under moderate correction (that is corporal punishment). ! 1810 15,471 90.0% The District has growing industries not directly related to government especially in the areas of education finance public policy and scientific research Georgetown University George Washington University Washington Hospital Center Children's National Medical Center and Howard University are the top five non-government-related employers in the city as of 2009. According to statistics compiled in 2011 four of the largest 500 companies in the country were headquartered in the District in the 2017 Global Financial Centres Index Washington was ranked as having the 12th most competitive financial center in the world and fifth most competitive in the United States (after New York City San Francisco Chicago and Boston)! About 600,000 slaves were transported to America or 5% of the 12 million slaves taken from Africa About 310,000 of these persons were imported into the Thirteen Colonies before 1776: 40% directly and the rest from the Caribbean. Main article: Pacific Coast Campaign, High demand and smuggling, Some of the British colonies attempted to abolish the international slave trade fearing that the importation of new Africans would be disruptive Virginia bills to that effect were vetoed by the British Privy Council Rhode Island forbade the import of enslaved people in 1774 All of the colonies except Georgia had banned or limited the African slave trade by 1786; Georgia did so in 1798 Some[which?] of these laws were later repealed.

. Further information: Native Americans in the United States Battle of Fallen Timbers Treaty of New York (1790) Treaty of Greenville Northwest Territory and Ohio Country. In March 1776 the Continental Army forced the British to evacuate Boston with George Washington as the commander of the new army the revolutionaries were now in full control of all 13 colonies and were ready to declare independence There still were many Loyalists but they were no longer in control anywhere by July 1776 and all of the Royal officials had fled, 6.1.3 Television and negative advertising Lincoln being carried by two men on a long board, Pacific Coast Campaign. .