. after a tough loss to the knicks, the wizards heading to new jersey to get back on the winning track. >> just playing against each other for four years? i'm coming out on top. i love this -- >> reporter: and there were high school competitors, now the best of friends, our brent harris hitting the hardwood with the dynamic duo. live from the comcast

sports net studio, this is geico sports night. team usa taking on canada in the gold medal game and it turned out to be one of the greatest in history. after falling behind 2-0, the u.s. scored once in the second period and again with 24.4 seconds left in the game, sending it to overtime. and seven minutes, 40 seconds into the overtime, sidney crosby getting the sudden death winner, and canada wins, 3-2. >> tough feeling, especially knowing you have the silver around your neck instead of the gold. but i met a lot of people, friends that i think we'll have the rest of my life. >> the big thing is when we played the u.s. unlike you people we thought we were pretty good and just thought we had a fix it a little bit and we would get better. you need to have good luck, and to have good luck we had good players. and in the end we were real

fortunate to have the opportunity to win the gold medal in front of all the canadian people who showed us so much support. >> hard heart break for the u.s., but outstanding tournament nonetheless. i'm jill sorensen, we'll have more on the historic game, guys. >> the third time a host country takes the gold medal. and spoken out spoken, great series? great game. and -- but sidney crosby, i mean the fans -- so we were talking about the abc's anybody but crosby? >> yes, obviously we can give him all the discredit we want, we know he is a very good player, but still they find a way. >> it is interesting, as you said they found a way to keep them in check, pretty much the

entire game. an unusual situation in this whole thing, the usa, the way they finished, the higher seed, they were technically the home team, coach wilson, doing great, the canadian coach, doing great. most of the day, but crosby finds a way to get it done for canada. >> the reason they go to overtime, the two goalies, miller, luongo, 34, you watch those two, you got nervous watching those two guys getting the job done. >> well, ryan miller, disgusted the way it ends because he is such a competitor. but basically he allowed the team to get back when they fell 2-0, he made a save, mid-way through the third period, it kept his team in it. they don't get a chance to get to overtime without the great

play of luongo, both were spectacular, he feels terrible, miller, but -- >> it is tough to say terrible, when you get the silver, silver successful for the u.s.? >> very, very successful. >> coming in i thought team usa talked the talk, but in reality they probably shouldn't have been in the game or gotten any type of medal because of the good decision that they made to go younger. you go youth, you plan for 2014,. >> and i'll ask you the silver question, do you think in the longs, 2014 in russia -- >> they better get it done for a couple of reasons. you saw an overwhelming amount of support all around the world for these games. and particularly in a marketplace you want to grow from around the states, they got a huge bump in terms of interest. secondly if you give crosby

credit for winning an olympic goal for his country in his own back yard and he deserves the credit, give ovechkin and others the same thing in russia in 2014. >> that is smoking al, make sure there are no sharp objects near bruce. >> and it means the capitals will be back in action this week starting wednesday in buffalo, slowly by surely all their olympic participants are coming back to the area for practice. back here at home, kessler, where several of them returned to the home ice today. niklas backstrom and others returning from vancouver, niklas backstrom's swedish team losing, despite the early exits both players were thrilled to

represent their countries. >> it was great fun it was -- making it, i feel sad about the loss we had in the quarterfinals, but -- >> i think it was a good experience to play. it is a big tournament -- i mean couple of those -- getting a couple of days off. i mean it was fun to be there. and even -- you want to take over more games, but it doesn't affect us too much. >> all right, ovechkin on the ice with the rest of the capitals going to buffalo to start the run. the olympic break is over, time for now to go for lord stanly's cup. am i talking about it too early? you can win the free tickets, go for your chance to register for the free tickets to the

caps versus lightning game, just enter the key word, cap. and finishing watching the richardson video, missing the stress there, knicks on the run, harris made it through the pass, new jersey by 14 in the first. not much better in the second, williams on the business end of the alley-oop. by 14, not much -- wizards got their act together in the third, around three, a one- handed plus, a career high 36, young man is playing. moments later, whiz running this time, miller to thornton, circus shot going in, tied at 63, thornton not done yet, humphrey, you may want to watch out because thornton now has 20. now randy foy, base line jumper left side, rotation, slash, wizards up two, 45 seconds left. next possession for the wizards, i like that spot on

the court. wipe it, good night it. wizards winning four straight. >> and just because -- the reason, you are playing arrest hard, trying the play the right win, getting a win, reinforcing, losing two, losing by two and everything else. and then winning games it is big to

torn right bicep, he is supposed to be an unrestricted free agent coming up. and done it all year long, we'll see how they stack up this year. and brett harris at majority georgetown for the sit-down, high school competitors, a driving force behind georgetown's success. >> pretty much our game is compliment each other. and -- we -- pretty much -- we don't have to say much to each

other to get us going. pretty much what i do, i just look at chris and give him the heads-up, it is to go. he does too. >> i think it is chemistry, we read each other well, i look for him on a fast break because i know it will be an assi

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what you guys have been through, the ups and downs, what has the friendship for just you two been like? >> well this has a friendship that developed during high school, pretty much. just playing against each other, how many years is that? four years, i'm coming out on top of a winning streak. >> winning together here, maybe that helps a little though right? >> yeah, it definitely wins. >> i win in practice now, we're on separate teams i win. so -- >> takes the sting away a little bit. >> yeah, it does a little bit.

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don't feel old, no, i feel young. >> i feel young, i mean yeah, in a sense we're older on the court. you know and guys kind of -- respect that because we have been through things. but no, i done feel old, 20 years old. no -- >> i'm still young, i'm still 20 just like him. >> when you look at the stretch going the next couple of weeks going into the east tournament play how important is it to grab momentum? >> i think it is big for us, we want to win as many games as possible. any momentum going into the game with the top scores, anything will help. we get a couple of days rest i think that is important. i think you know this last home stretch is going to set us up

well, knowing when we come in -- >> all right from georgetown to maryland, the argument can be made, the acc player of the year, tied, first in the conference at nearly seven at 60s assists during the game, and another look back at last night, 41 points he put up was a career high, first to pass 40 points since joe smith reached 40 back in '95. he is also close to the record set back in the day. also passed albert king in the third place on the all-time scoring list. >> huge win for us. great place to play, great fans and coach and players. so we just -- i mean to me it is one of the best. >> obviously a great game going

into the game. you know to be able to do what he did, knowing their defense was geared towards him. and this is a tough place to play. >> the whole team, we won it together, i couldn't have won it by myself, we're doing good -- >> oh, the front runners for player of the year in the acc, vazquez, that is like voting for crosby by the way. tied with velazquez for the scoring lead, crying all year long, and a final home game against nc state on wednesday. the real test of our character will be on wednesday. you know i -- everybody is going to say well they lost three in a row. well, we played our tails off

at duke, played our tails off today so we're a pretty good team. >> we just -- you were just talking about the next game. didn't do well in this game, we have to be ready to play wednesday and get ready for nc state, we can't let that drag us into that game. >> as seen on the

harper misses at the buzzer. they win, 78-76. and the power of dunn changing the lineup, how much longer will he play for d.c.? >> tomorrow on washington post live, the cell phones, a brew- haha, put your thoughts and

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. seems as if everybody got in the olympic spirit, include the nationals who broke their team huddle with the usa champ, dunn the first to hit 300 homers before his 30th birthday, as the team tries to

build a contender, dunn is a huge part of the plan, from florida. >> reporter: adam dunn's bat is as loud as his personality, last season finishing in the top 10 in four categories. >> he is our guy, our frank howard. so -- he is -- you know has that history. he -- you know is -- he is the presence in our lineup that demands respect. >> he is one of the most consistent power hitters for the game in the past five or six years. and to be able to plug a guy in the middle of the lineup, pretty much that will be 40 and 100 every year, people don't realize how important that is. >> reporter: now the question is will the nats have dunn in the cleanup spot this season. the team hopes to lock him up

for a long-term deal. >> we see a place for adam dun henry, long-term, if he wants that, we feel comfortable with it. >> i love that, really i felt last year when i came here they were going in the right direction. and this year, the people they signed they were active in the market and they're still active. >> it is important for me, he is one of the most important players on the team. there are not many 40, rbi guys out there, we look at it this way several years down the road if he continues at the pace he is at, we'll talk about hall of fame adam dunn. >> reporter: now he has more pressing issues to worry about than the hall of fame, and being a parent is changing the outlook on life. >> if there is ever a .180, i am taking it, i remember when i came in looking at guys married with kids going that is boring, i want no part of that.

no part of it right now. and now that it has happened i wouldn't have it happen any other way. >> reporter: at the ripe old age of 30, dunn is a club house leader, perfect for this team. >> he fits in with the club, he is a very unique leader i call him. he leads in kind of an unusual way but leads nonetheless. >> reporter: his leadership style was called unusual, what would you call it? >> aggressive, he is not afraid to say what he thinks, but people know -- ever since 7th grade, i look it, i like when people look up to me and expect a lot out of me. and as much as people expect out of me probably half of what i expect out of myself. >> adam dunn. big day for the canadians, gold their goal, we watched the highlights from the experience on the way.

>> anybody named cindy? >>

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. all right for crosby, thank you for joining us on geico sports night. as we leave you tonight a look at a few die-hard u.s. and canadian hockey fans at the canadian embassy. >> reporter: live on sunday afternoon it is hockey night at the canadian embassy. canada-usa, please come in. [loud noises] >> [cheering and applause] >> it is the icing on the cake, we love hockey, we're proud of our hockey players and our hockey teams. we know the u.s. has got a great team, they beat us a week

ago. so it would be -- a wonderful way to end the olympics. >> the fans love it. >> does he. >> uncle sam doesn't love him. he loves miller. the beer and the colts. >> we may are be rivals in terms of of the competition, but we both know how to have a cold beer and competition. >> i made an american sandwich. >> it cops comes from canada in the early 1800s, so canada, hockey, belongs to us. [cheering and applause] >> we feel awesome of . it is great to have won this. we own the podium. >> i am so happy, my dream has come true. winning in and e gottheold. comn, ven'ot d

and before it could move on, sojourner jumped aboard. they're then rose a great shout from the crowd she has beaten them! the conductor told her to go forward where the horses work or he would put her out. quietly seating herself she informed him she was a passenger. go forward where the horses are or i will throw you out, said he and a menacing voice. she told him she was neither a maryland or or virginian to fear his threats but was from the entire state of new york and new the law as well as he did. several soldiers were in the car and when other passengers came in the related the circumstances said you ought to have heard that old woman talk to the conductor. sojourner road further than she needed to go for a ride was a

rare privilege she was determined to make the most of it. she left the car feeling very happy and said bless god, i have had a pride. on another occasion, she had been walking with a white friend when they decided to take a street car together. this time a conductor put his hand on her to force her off the car and the situation exploded. in the book of life truth describe what happened. has she signaled the car i stepped to one side as if to continue my walk and when it stopped i ran and jumped aboard. [laughter] the conductor pushed me back saying get out of the way and let this lady come in. alana leedy, too. we went with no further

opposition until we were obliged to change cars. a man coming out as we were going into the next car asked the conductor if niggers were allowed to write. the conductor grout me by my shoulders and ordered me to get out. i told him i would not. the woman to call of my other arms and said don't put her out. the conductor asked if i belonged to her. no, she replied. she belongs to humanity. then take her out and go, and giving me another push slammed me against the door. i told him i would let him know whether he could shove me and out like a bald and said to the woman take a number of this car. truth found out during her hospital stay she had a case to

take this man to court for assault and battery. with assistance from a lawyer from the freedman's bureau, she won. her lawsuit not only got the streetcar conductor fired it also became one of the stories that forced the district to desegregate the streetcars. this is what sojourner truths that happened after this. it created a great sensation and before the trial ended, the inside of the cars looked like pepper and salt. sojourner truth brought hope to the freedoms village of the residence also helped themselves by educating and taking care of their own. they started, they turned was ordered to be a refugee camp into a home, building houses and schools, wooden two-story duplex homes were built, housing

multiple families. there were also homes set up for the old and the infirm who couldn't care for themselves. they also build schools which taught them trade so they could become blacksmiths, carpenters, shoemaker's or tailors. the students then gave back to the village making clothes and shoes for the villagers and chairs and desks for the school. so with all of this why isn't freedman's village still there today? there's an answer. in december from 1882, but leave family won a lawsuit brought against -- they brought to the united states supreme court regarding arlington house. the fight-for ruling stated arlington house had been confiscated without due process.

the next year congress purchased the property from the lees for $150,000. arlington house officially became government property and friedman's village was finished. on december 7, 1887 the people in the village were given 90 days to leave. they received $75,000 to split amongst themselves as compensation for the work they had done to make their homes little and then they were thrown off the land. today there is nothing left of friedman's village. however that does not mean there is no record of the african-americans who used to live at the site that became arlington national cemetery. the federal government removed the buildings but left behind the grave sites of those who had

died there. in section 27 of the cemetery, the part of arlington national cemetery nearest to good memorial there are more than 3800 grave markers with inscription civilian and citizen. these are the grades of the former residence of the freedom village who are laid to rest near the land they used to call their own. entered with the residence of the freedom village in section 27, and also in section 23 are about 1500 united states colored troops. the african-americans who fought with the union army despite being forced to work in segregated unions. their tombstones bear a civil war shield of and letter u.s.

seat he carved on the front. the troops are buried in these two sections because arlington national cemetery was segregated for more than 80 years and african-american were buried separate from their white counterparts. so if you ever have a chance to go to the national cemetery, once again this is the section closest to the he would g. wood memorial, you would see to from carrying the word civilian and citizen. allow the tombstones have only one name, like this one washington. when he died, that was the only name they had for him. quite a few of them say and on known because they have no record of the real man of this person. but you can find names of people -- there is a wilson in the back

there's a rosa smith here on the side. even if you go out there and look you can find children who were buried in this section. but once again, all of these tombstone's say civilian or citizen because when these people died they were no longer slaves, they were civilians and citizens of the united states of america. now the title of the book is called "black men built the capitol," which brings up the obvious question of did black man really built the capitol? i'm going to take a couple more seconds to read a little bit more to you. while millions of people toward the capitol, to veto every year, few know or are told of the contributions that blacks made to the heart and soul of the u.s. government. no minor oversight.

the capitol will now exist as we know it today without sleeve craftsmanship and labor. work would show the sleeves who live in the washington, d.c. area made up a good portion of the labor pool that worked on the capitol. more than 400 sleeves or more than half of the documented work force that constructed the capitol cleared the land from jenkins hill and dug up stumps for the wide avenues that radiate out into the city according to the research first published -- publicized by nbc reporter in 2000. we now know slaves baked bricks used for the building's foundation and walls, they solve the lumber for the interior walls and floors, doug foot trenches for the foundation, worked the va cory is where the sandstone walls cut and laid the stones that hold up the capitol to this day.

quote come in rebuilding the capitol, the white house and other public structures destroyed by the british in 1814 games of tired slaves the bulk of the work, rhode constance mclaughlin cream in her 1967 book "the secret city their race for the race relations in the nation's capital." many of the slaves were hired from maryland and the district of columbia. the largest sleeve holding state of america was virginia. with a little more than 400,000 slaves living there before the civil war. the people of the district of columbia and maryland also had their share of slaves with as many as 31 -- 3,185 slaves residing in the federal capital and another 100,000 living in maryland. the construction of the speed and other federal buildings in washington was a windfall for slave owners whose public records for attesting to the fact the 5-dollar payment for

african-american slave labor was made directly to the slave owners and not to the laborers according to the congressional legislation introduced in 2000 to study the use of slave labor in the capital's construction. slave owner edmund who lived in what is now called st. mary's county owned 64 slaves and rented three men, gerard, tony and jack to work at the capitol. although he did not lift one single stone or cut down a single tree, she made $15 a month of the capitol construction. he was only required to provide his slaves with a blanket. the use of slave laborers benefit the government as well as the slave owners. if white workers demand higher salaries, the government could threaten to replace them with

some cheap slave labor. little is known about the slaves themselves other than some of their names and the fact that they live in an ramshackle huts around the capitol along with white paid laborers although they received no money for their regular work slaves did get rations while working on the capitol. some unlikely getting more than they would have gotten if the had been working on local farms. slaves were sometimes paid if they worked more than their masters required for example if the work on sunday in addition to working for a normal monday through saturday work week. one slave named peter received 1 pound for making a coffin for, quote, public. if you go through the capitol today there are some things you can see that still accessed that

african-american slaves directly worked on. i'm going to start with something that is not in the capitol anymore. if you've been to the national arboretum on new york avenue directly on the center is this, this is called the national capital columns. these are columns that used to hold up the dome of the u.s. capitol. however, as the dome was getting near completion, they found out the sandstone of the used for the columns would not support the full weight of the dome. so the columns that exist on the dome of the capitol right now are actually replicas of the columns. these were taken out of the cattle and moved to several different locations around washington, d.c. and finally ended up at the arboretum. these stones were quarried in virginia at a slave ron cory

where african-american slaves were read the stone, cut into blocks and put it on barges heading up the potomac brought to the washington harbor and then put on a horse and carriage and brought to the u.s. capitol. if you go out to the arboretum today you can put your hands on something. that african-american slaves worked on for the u.s. capitol but you don't have to go all the way out to the arboretum to put your hands on something this leaves worked on. national statuary hall inside the u.s. capitol, this use to be the original chamber for the house of representatives. the marble columns inside this chamber are also there because african-american work. let me read a little bit about

that for you. the contributions of african-americans didn't end with the construction of the walls and structures of the capitol. historical records show slaves are responsible for the most impressive architectural features inside the capitol. some of the contributions are on display in statuary hall, the home of the statues donated by the 50 states to honor their greatest citizens and the original chamber of the house of representatives. congress was anxious to restore the statuary hall, the site of several presidential inaugurations to the previous glory after the birth the capitol after the war of 1812. to that in the federal government contract with a man named john to provide the colossal columns marble to stand along falls of the house and the senate chambers.

the marble was to be quarried from lowland very maryland which was located along the potomac river in an area now known as northern montgomery county. but it proved to be poor choice because he was woefully unprepared according to william allen architectural historian for the architect of the capitol who's written several books on the building's architecture and art. he failed to quarry, cut and polished marble from the ferry at the speed needed to complete the reconstruction of the house and senate chambers. the federal government decided to hire workers to complete the project. many of the workers were slaves from nearby farms. while the government did not pay these slaves for their work they provided clothing and temporary housing as they successfully quarried, cut and polished the shafts and send them up the potomac to washington for placement.

the same marble shaft can be seen along the walls of statuary hall and old senate chambers, one of the few places in the capitol where the tourists can still touch something historians and academics can positively a test was worked on my slaves. as a reward for their work, the slaves were to be returned to enslavement in the fields and farms from which they had been brought. meanwhile the masters received payments from the federal government 3i worked in the capitol for about six years and every time i walked through statuary hall i made sure to touch at least one of the columns because these columns are a direct example of work african-american slave state inside the u.s. capitol. but these are not the only places you can still see work that african-americans did on

the u.s. capitol. the statute that crowns the capitol dome likely would not be there without philip reed. blacks were not just brewed labor at the capitol. they also brought a highly specialized experience and carpentry iran working other trades as the statue of freedom on top of the capitol dome shows. when the capitals first constructed the building had a small wood and copper dome but none of the grander of the current bohm it was considered a national and harassment. the responsible the coming up with the dome of the architect and designer walter and montgomery minx who designed and constructed the current white

cast-iron dome we see today. two months after congress authorized the construction of the dome in 1855 sculptor thomas crawford was given commission to create a statue the would sit on top of the new structure. crawford was a white man who had a couple of runnings with slaves owner and future president of the confederacy davis. but because of the desire to make the statue one of a freed slave. he completed the 19-foot 6-inch plaster model of the statue of freedom and 86 while living in the aroma. according to the arctic of the capitol, crawford wanted to top the statue of liberty cap, the symbol of the freed slaves in ancient greece and that is what you see on top. this is a photo of the original plaster model of the statue of freedom and the top you can see

the liberty cap i just mentioned. davis and his than capacity as the u.s. war secretary objected to this idea saying in a january 5th 1866 letter that its history renders it inappropriate to people who were born every and would not be enslaved. so in other words, jefferson -- sorry, geoff davis did not want a statue of a freed slave put on top of the u.s. capitol before the civil war because he thought it might give people some ideas. so he went back to thomas crawford and said something has to be changed. crawford relented replacing the capitol crusted element which is what we see on the statue of freedom today.

he would die the next year in london without ever seeing his work on top of the capitol. if not for the ingenuity of philip reed a slave of mixed blood the story of the freedom statue would end with a plaster model a riding in america and sitting on the ground of capital. a 39-year-old slave from charleston south carolina was owned by iran worker clark who described him as a highly esteemed workmen smart in mind and a good portman and founder. he came up with mills to washington, d.c. from south carolina where the slave worked for his entire life. mills noted that he bought read because the evident talent in the business. reed proved his intelligence and skills in two different incidents involving the statue

of freedom. once this plaster mold of the statue of freedom which by the way now sits in the capitol as a donor center needed to the capitol grounds and i talion workmen assembled near the building so everyone from around kinsey would freedom of look like when it was finished on top of the bellmon. author described happened in 1869 book the federal city in this in a balance of washington. the italian was ordered to take the mall as part. this he refused to do unless he was given a large increase of wages and secured employment for a number of years in other words a good government job. he said he alone knew how to separate and would only do so upon such conditions.

the italian worker thought he was the only person in the country skilled enough to pick apart the bottle without breaking it but filled freed proved him wrong. his plan of working was this, it will lead and tackle was brought into use and the hook inserted into the to the head of the statute. the group was then gently strained repeatedly until the upper most joining of the top section of the model began to make a feint appearance. this gave some indications as to the whereabouts of the bolts inside and led to their discovery. thus one after another of the sections were discovered bolts on listened and the model on injured made ready for the founder. if philip reed hadn't figured out how to take them all back part who knows what would have happened to the statute.

it possibly would still be sitting outside of the u.s. capitol even today. but because of the ingenuity of an african-american slave, the plaster model was disassembled and taken out to plains bird maryland to the foundry of clark where it was going to be bronzed. however there was a second incident once the statute made. clark mills was paid $400 a month by the federal government to cast freedom and bronze at his foundry. but another dispute over money interrupted the work. december 10, 1863 the new york tribune described the situation. when the bronze castings were being completed in a foundry of mr. mills near blight and

sprick, his man who attended the word from the beginning and who was receiving $8 per day went on strike and demanded to and assuring him that the advance must be granted to him as nobody in america except themselves could complete the work. he felt the man who was exorbitant and appealed in his dilemma to the slaves in assisting in the molding. i can do that well said one of them, intelligent and ingenious servant who had been intimately engaged in the various processes. the stryker was dismissed and the negro assisted occasionally by the skill of his master took the strikers place as the superintendent and the work went on. the black master builder looked at the ponderous under whose masses and bolted them together joined by a joint, piece by

piece until they blended into the budget stick freedom to a lifts her head in the blue clouds above washington invoking benediction on this in periled republic. now the slave was never named in a new york tribune story but it's likely given the description of the skill that this was philip reed foss it took a slave to get the work started on the statue of freedom by figuring out how to take the plaster model part and it took a black man to supervise the creation of a statute that sits on top of the capitol. now few history books mention him or the work he did. but his service is well documented and congressional records. in an address to congress in 1928 as preserved in the congressional record, one of the

statues most reverend supporters william cox said that the successful dismantling and handling of the model was due to the faithful servants and genius of an intelligent negro in washington named philip reed. a slave owned by mr. clarke mills and much credit is due his faithful intelligent services rendered in molding and casting america's superb statue of freedom which uses the first rays of the rising sun as they appear upon the apex of the capitol wonderful dome. his skills such that he was one of the few slaves paid personally in addition to use master being compensated for his time and labor. this is a copy of a receipt we were able to find at the national archives of money that was paid to filled read.

in 1861 the federal government paid $1.25 each sunday for, quote, keeping out the fire under the old. one of the things we were able to find out about philip read through this document and by the we keeping up for your under the old, this is basically keeping the fire is burning to work in iran you need heat. however when the work week ended saturday if you but if i go out to waste a bunch of time on monday getting it started again so his job was to keep the fire burning hot savitt continue working on monday morning. and one of the things we were able to discover this document is despite his high intelligence, philip reed was delivered. we can tell this because at the bottom someone has written his name and in between his name is an ex that is his mark, that's the only writing that he could

do. now what happened to philip reed after the statue of freedom was completed? we've been able to find one more reference to him in a book here in washington. philip reed was freed on emancipation day in washington, d.c. and a reference in a book says after he was freed phillip reid opened up his own shop in downtown d.c.. so these are just a few of the stories that i've been able to discover about washington, d.c.. and since the publication of this book, i have learned countless other stories for example i was talking to you earlier about friedman's bill which. i've actually discovered a church in arlington virginia that is directly descended from the church in a