contraband
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The surge of contrabands coincided with mounting Union casualties, however, and soon led whites to call for black enlistments.
From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018
Bas-relief sculptures by Joanna Blake depict contrabands escaping from slavery to seek sanctuary in Alexandria and barefoot children learning to read at a freedmen’s school.
From Washington Times • Feb. 4, 2017
In May 1861, Union general Benjamin Butler and others labeled these refugees from slavery contrabands.
From Textbooks • Dec. 30, 2014
Within little more than a year, the stream of a few hundred contrabands at Fort Monroe became a river of tens — probably even hundreds — of thousands.
From New York Times • Apr. 1, 2011
Port Royal was filled with contrabands, poverty- stricken, sick, homeless, starving.
From "Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad" by Ann Petry
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Against All Odds: Contra and Counter
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