DC Statehood Is a Matter of Justice
The Atlantic Statehood for Washington, D.C., is a matter of justice. February 21, 2021 Getty / Paul Spella / The Atlantic A couple of years ago, in the halcyon days before the pandemic, I went with a small group of friends to visit Cedar Hill, Frederick Douglass’s house in the southeastern corner of Washington, D.C. On the way there, we drove past the rowhouses of what used to be called Uniontown, the city’s first suburb, constructed in the 1850s in what was then farmland. Uniontown was originally “whites only”; Douglass, being Douglass, bought the house anyway, and lived in it from 1...
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