DC was the 1st territory in the United States to free the enslaved.
It’s where Black Americans fled the tyranny of slavery & towards greater freedom, to DC. Yet today it’s where 2nd class citizenship reigns, and the right to vote is denied.
It’s time to recognize DC statehood. https://t.co/AkfaRHw38C
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) September 19, 2019
This of course is nonsense.
Slavery was legal in D.C. until 1862, when Abraham Lincoln made it illegal.
The first territory was the Northwest Ordinance which was free from 1787. First state was Vermont which was free in 1777, even before it became a state.
People fleeing slavery prior to 1862 were fleeing north, not running to D.C.