Details
Title "Latest contraband" envelope
Date 1861-1865
Physical description 1 envelope; 8 x 14 cm. (3 x 3.5 in.)
Notes Image: A freed African American man stands with his right hand on his hip and his left hand holding a hoe. Refers to the contraband policy that banned soldiers from returning runaway slaves to their owners once they crossed Union lines.
Verse 1381: Massa can't have dis chile, dat's what's de matter.
Caption: The latest contraband of war.
Genre Patriotic envelopes 1860-1870
Coverage United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
Is part of Civil War Envelope Collection
Civil War Envelope Collection
Has format TMP.objres.5372.jpg
Provenance McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector
Identifier Caricatures - Blacks
Accession number Envelope C-BL-16
Bibliographic citation William R. Weiss. The catalog of Union Civil War patriotic covers (Bethleham, Pa.: William R. Weiss, 1995).