Existing comment:
Secrets of the Prison-House -- The Black Hole of Washington, DC, 1861:
At first, Washington's marshal jailed the fugitive slaves in the "Old Capitol Prison," under miserable circumstances. Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, one of the premier publications of the time, sent an illustrator to depict the conditions of what it called "The Black Hole" of Washington. Today the Supreme Court building stands at that site. |