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Jul 22, 2020 · Half a mile west of the U.S. Capitol, and just south of the National Mall (and today, across the street from the Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden), sat William H. Williams’...
The Yellow House was the slave jail of the Williams brothers (Thomas Williams and William H. Williams), located at 7th Street and Maryland Avenue in Washington, D.C., the capital city of the United States.
William H. Williams operated a slave pen in Washington, DC, known as the Yellow House, and actively trafficked in enslaved men, women, and children for more than twenty years.
- Jeff Forret
- Hardcover
Sep 1, 2021 · This enormously complicated, ambitious book offers multiple stories about the Washington, D.C., slave trader, William H. Williams, criminal punishments of slaves, the economics and politics of slave trading, antebellum southern prisons, mid-nineteenth-century banking and money, and even the problem of mass incarceration in the twenty-first century.
- Paul Finkelman
- 2021
Jan 16, 2020 · William H. Williams operated a slave pen in Washington, DC, known as the Yellow House, and actively trafficked in enslaved men, women, and children for more than twenty years.
Nov 26, 2019 · William H. Williams’ infamous private slave jail, dubbed the Yellow House, was instrumental in the education of Henry Wilson. The Yellow House was located just south of the National Mall, on the block bounded by Seventh and Eighth streets, and by B Street and Maryland Avenue.
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Jan 16, 2020 · It argues that the story of William H. Williams and his one shipment of convict slaves purchased in 1840 provides a snapshot of the antebellum era socially, economically, politically, and legally.
