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Transcripts For CSPAN3 The Civil War 20160716

Werent they foreign country . That is what he said. You say you are a foreign country. I guess u. S. Laws dont apply to you. So he said, im confiscating these three men as contraband property of war. They were used in service of the confederacy. Now they are union property. He even gave the confederate soldier a receipt. So what is contraband . This spreads incredibly quickly. Through newspapers rub the north. All of a sudden you see minstrel shows of the contraband. It becomes a now, part of common parlance. Is something of a legal trick. Is in in between status. Matter slave nor free. You are a ward of the government. You are a piece of property like smuggled goods but you are a person. Your labor is useful. But whatever the ambiguities of contraband, it definitely is a link to emancipation. We can save fort monroe is the birthplace of the emancipation because this contraband decision does one of two things. It makes congress recognize they first, have to do something. Congress sanct

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