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Title
Compensation Claim of Dr. Charles H. Liebermann, June 28, 1862
Subject
Slaves--Emancipation--Washington (D.C.)
Description
In 1862, Dr. Charles H. Liebermann, Professor of Institutes and Practice of Surgery in the Medical Department at Georgetown College, submitted a claim of compensation for the emancipation of Daniel Jones, an enslaved man he had owned since 1849 and who was freed by the 1862 DC Compensated Emancipation Act. Dr. Liebermann purchased Daniel Jones for 200 dollars from Anne Payne for a term of 15 years of labor. He claimed 225 dollars for compensation and received 65.70 from the federal government.
A native of Russia, Liebermann arrived in the District of Columbia via Germany in 1840. By 1850, Dr. Liebermann owned three enslaved persons, Daniel Jones, who was around 13 years old at the time, a 15-year-old boy, and a 29 year-old woman. Liebermann was a resident of Ward 2 in the District of Columbia and was the "chief planner and treasurer of the medical school" in its early years. Besides his post at Georgetown, he was the leading oculist in the city, a physician to the Convent of Visitation, and a member of the Board of Managers of the Children's Hospital. He was one of the physicians called to attend President Lincoln at his deathbed and was the President of the Medical Society of DC from 1865 to 1867.
Additional research is ongoing to learn more about Daniel Jones and to investigate other links between the Medical Department and slavery. Anybody with information on either of these topics is encouraged to contact the Georgetown Slavery Archive.
For more on Charles H. Liebermann, the founding of the Georgetown's Medical Department, and his role in Washington's medical community, see Curran, Bicentennial History of Georgetown University, vol. 1, pp. 145-157; Holland, Samuel H. "Charles H. Liebermann, M.D.: an early Russian-born physician of Washington, D.C." Medical Annals of the District of Columbia. XXXVIII (1969). Washington, D.C.: pp. 499-504.
A native of Russia, Liebermann arrived in the District of Columbia via Germany in 1840. By 1850, Dr. Liebermann owned three enslaved persons, Daniel Jones, who was around 13 years old at the time, a 15-year-old boy, and a 29 year-old woman. Liebermann was a resident of Ward 2 in the District of Columbia and was the "chief planner and treasurer of the medical school" in its early years. Besides his post at Georgetown, he was the leading oculist in the city, a physician to the Convent of Visitation, and a member of the Board of Managers of the Children's Hospital. He was one of the physicians called to attend President Lincoln at his deathbed and was the President of the Medical Society of DC from 1865 to 1867.
Additional research is ongoing to learn more about Daniel Jones and to investigate other links between the Medical Department and slavery. Anybody with information on either of these topics is encouraged to contact the Georgetown Slavery Archive.
For more on Charles H. Liebermann, the founding of the Georgetown's Medical Department, and his role in Washington's medical community, see Curran, Bicentennial History of Georgetown University, vol. 1, pp. 145-157; Holland, Samuel H. "Charles H. Liebermann, M.D.: an early Russian-born physician of Washington, D.C." Medical Annals of the District of Columbia. XXXVIII (1969). Washington, D.C.: pp. 499-504.
Creator
https://civilwardc.org/texts/petitions/cww.00782.html
Source
Petitions Filed under the Act of April 16, 1862 Numbers 601-800, Ancestry.com. Washington, D.C., Slave Owner Petitions, 1862-1863 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. From Records of the Board of Commissioners for the Emancipation of Slaves in the District of Columbia, 1862–1863. NARA Microfilm Publication M520, 6 rolls. Records of the United States General Accounting, Record Group 217. National Archives, Washington, D.C. See also Civil War Washington for a transcription of Lieberman's petition.
Publisher
Georgetown Slavery Archive
Date
1862-06-28
Contributor
Elsa Barraza Mendoza, Adam Rothman. Transcribed by Civil War Washington
Format
PDF
Language
English
Type
Petition