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Washington D.C. Business Directory, 10.2 References Washington D.C. Business Directory, 4.2 Further hostilities In short even though some individual slaveowners grew rich and some family fortunes were founded on the exploitation of slaves that is very different from saying that the whole society or even its non-slave population as a whole was more economically advanced than it would have been in the absence of slavery What this means is that whether employed as domestic servants or producing crops or other goods millions suffered exploitation and dehumanization for no higher purpose than the...aggrandizement of slaveowners! . 10.1 Notes Miniature of George Washington by Robert Field (1800), 10.1 Notes 4 Structure Washington D.C. Business Directory Central concepts[show] Governing bodies. .

! By country[show] 4 Organic Act of 1871 Washington D.C. Business Directory New Orleans became nationally important as a slave market and port as slaves were shipped from there upriver by steamboat to plantations on the Mississippi River; it also sold slaves who had been shipped downriver from markets such as Louisville by 1840 it had the largest slave market in North America it became the wealthiest and the fourth-largest city in the nation based chiefly on the slave trade and associated businesses the trading season was from September to May after the harvest. 11 External links 12 See also In 1885 Congress proclaimed Washington's birthday to be a federal holiday. Twentieth-century biographer Douglas Southall Freeman concluded "The great big thing stamped across that man is character." Modern historian David Hackett Fischer has expanded upon Freeman's assessment defining Washington's character as "integrity self-discipline courage absolute honesty resolve and decision but also forbearance decency and respect for others".