Historical Nonfiction

Chocolate City

One of the reasons that the nation’s capitol (Washington, DC, for you non-Americans)  is so predominantly African-American is directly related to old slave codes. When slavery was still legal in the American South, most states had laws to keep their free African-American population low. They didn’t want slaves getting any ideas. So many  had laws requiring that newly freed slaves had to leave the state within a certain amount of time of gaining their freedom, usually one month. If they stayed, they would be returned to bondage — so most got the hell out. Further, these laws often applied to any free African-American entering the state, too. So DC was the first place to the north that allowed newly freed or born free African-Americans to enter and stay.  

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    Did not know this~ But why is it titled ‘Chocolate City’? That rubs me the wrong way a little…

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