Editing Compromise of 1850 (section)

===End of slave trade in District of Columbia===
A statute enacted as part of the compromise prohibited [[Slavery in the District of Columbia|the slave trade in Washington, D.C.]], but not slave ownership.<ref>David L. Lewis, ''District of Columbia: A Bicentennial History'', (W.W. Norton, 1976), 54–56.</ref> Southerners in Congress, alarmed and outraged,<ref>{{citation
|title=Border War
|series=War and Reconstruction. The Mid-Missouri Civil War Project
|year=2010
|publisher=[[University of Missouri School of Law]]
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100615053551/http://law.missouri.edu/bowman/hatts/john_brown/border_war_1.html
|archive-date=June 15, 2010
|url-status=dead
|url=http://law.missouri.edu/bowman/hatts/john_brown/border_war_1.html}}</ref> were unanimous in opposing the provision, seen as a concession to the [[Abolitionism in the United States|abolitionists]] and a bad precedent, but they were outvoted.<ref>Damani Davis, "Slavery and Emancipation in the Nation's Capital," ''Prologue'', Spring 2010, vol. 42#1, pp. 52–59</ref>  However, Washington's residents could still easily buy and sell slaves in the nearby states of Virginia and Maryland.