Compensation petitions covered roughly 3,100 enslaved people

Evidence

“The whole number of petitions presented during this time was nine hundred and sixty-six, and the number of ‘persons held to service or labor’ embraced in the petitions, for whom compensation was claimed, is three thousand one hundred.” Emancipation in the District of Columbia: Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, 38th Cong. 2 (February 17, 1864). — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 671