CSPAN3 The Civil War July 16, 2016
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 co...
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