File:Contrabands at Headquarters of General Lafayette by Mathew Brady.jpg

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Text from below the photo: "Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1862, by Barnard & Gibson, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Columbia."
"Contrabands at Headquarters of General Lafayette," black-and-white photograph on carte de visite mount, by the American photographer Mathew Brady. 'Contrabands' was an expression coined by General Benjamin F. Butler to describe escaped slaves. Image courtesy of Randolph Linsly Simpson African-American collection, Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University, New Haven, Conn.

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current09:44, 4 January 2017Thumbnail for version as of 09:44, 4 January 20171,245 × 782 (380 KB)127.0.0.1 (talk)Text from below the photo: "Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1862, by Barnard & Gibson, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Columbia."<br> "Contrabands at Headquarters of General Lafayette," black-and-white photograph on carte de visite mount, by the American photographer Mathew Brady. 'Contrabands' was an expression coined by General Benjamin F. Butler to describe escaped slaves. Image courtesy of Randolph Linsly Simpson African-American collection, Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University, New Haven, Conn.
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