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Yes - the trade, but not the slavery itself.

So ironically, when the Civil War started, Washington D.C. was actually part of a slave-state. A few months later, D.C. did abolish slavery, although Lincoln still allowed it to be practised in the other slave-states that had remained loyal.

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