{"id":3734,"date":"2022-03-25T13:19:13","date_gmt":"2022-03-25T17:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/?p=3734"},"modified":"2023-03-25T13:35:25","modified_gmt":"2023-03-25T17:35:25","slug":"1861-contrabands-at-fort-monroe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/1861-contrabands-at-fort-monroe\/","title":{"rendered":"(1861) Contrabands at Fort Monroe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Freedom seekers Frank Baker, Shepard Mallory, and James Townsend reach Union lines at Fort Monroe, Virginia on May 23, where Gen. Benjamin Butler refuses to return them to their Confederate slaveholder. The US War Department supports Butler\u2019s claim that the freedom seekers can be confiscated as \u201ccontraband of war,\u201d setting in motion the wartime alliance between enslaved people and the US Army.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_3740\" style=\"width: 944px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/files\/2023\/03\/Fort-Monroe-Doctrine.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3740\" class=\"wp-image-3740 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/files\/2023\/03\/Fort-Monroe-Doctrine.jpeg\" alt=\"Contrabands\" width=\"934\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/files\/2023\/03\/Fort-Monroe-Doctrine.jpeg 934w, https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/files\/2023\/03\/Fort-Monroe-Doctrine-300x193.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/files\/2023\/03\/Fort-Monroe-Doctrine-768x493.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/files\/2023\/03\/Fort-Monroe-Doctrine-900x578.jpeg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 934px) 100vw, 934px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3740\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">1861 political cartoon on &#8220;contrabands&#8221; (<a href=\"https:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/36488\">Library of Congress<\/a>)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Freedom seekers Frank Baker, Shepard Mallory, and James Townsend reach Union lines at Fort Monroe, Virginia on May 23, where Gen. Benjamin Butler refuses to return them to their Confederate slaveholder. The US War Department supports Butler\u2019s claim that the freedom seekers can be confiscated as \u201ccontraband of war,\u201d setting in motion the wartime alliance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[23490],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-manning"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3734"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3750,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3734\/revisions\/3750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}