Black Civil War Soldier #1
by Photo Researchers
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Black Civil War Soldier #1
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Photo Researchers
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Photograph - Photograph
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Wood engraving of an escaped slave who has joined the Union army in the American Civil War. Black "refugee" soldiers, runaway slaves, were deemed "contraband of war" by the north, in a declaration by General Benjamin Butler in May 1861. They fought with Northern troops.
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June 1st, 2013
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