I'se Contraband
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Manuscripts Collection, Georgetown University Library, Booth Family Center for Special Collections, Washington, D.C.
Abstract
Illustrated Civil War envelopes with patriotic symbols, slogans and cartoons, mostly Northern, including a few Southern ones.
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Freed male slave in a straw hat. The man is superimposed on a black triangle containing the abbreviations of the states of the Confederacy. The black triangle is itself superimposed on an upside-down trangle containing horizontal lines. 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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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865; United States -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865; Covers (Philately) -- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865; Envelopes (Stationary); Cachets (Philately); Patriotism -- United States; Freedmen; United States Civil War; US Civil War; Patriotic envelopes; Contraband of war; Slave;
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(1861)Illustrated Civil War envelopes with patriotic symbols, slogans and cartoons, mostly Northern, including a few Southern ones.
