| dc.date.accessioned |
2005-11-28T22:35:26Z |
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| dc.date.available |
2005-11-28T22:35:26Z |
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| dc.date.issued |
2005-11-28T22:35:26Z |
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| dc.identifier.other |
cwe image #381 |
en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/1961/1929 |
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| dc.description |
A slave owner raises his whip as black families race toward Fort Monroe. Some remain behind picking cotton. The words "Come back here, you black rascal." "Can't come back nohow, mass; Dis chile's contraban'" appear in the image. The image is a reference to General Benjamin Butler's "contraband" policy, by which escaping slaves reaching Union lines would not be returned to slavery. Butler, a trained attorney, used Virginia's secession to argue that under international law that escaped slaves were "contraband of war" and he was not required to return them to their former owners. |
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| dc.format |
Patriotic envelopes |
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| dc.format.extent |
58336 bytes |
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image/jpeg |
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| dc.language.iso |
en_US |
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| dc.relation.ispartofseries |
Roosevelt Civil War Envelopes Collection ; page 116, image 1 |
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| dc.subject |
Freedman |
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| dc.subject |
Butler, Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1818-1893 |
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| dc.subject |
Fort Monroe (Va.) |
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| dc.title |
Slave escaping at Fort Monroe. |
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