1863 CIVIL WAR newspaper NEGR0 ESCAPED SLAVES helpedby Philadelphia PA QUAKERS

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1862 CIVIL WAR newspaper with an inside-page detailed report on NEGR0 ESCAPED SLAVES from Virginia, currently being help at
Fortress Monroe
being supplied by Philadelphia, Pennsylvania QUAKERS
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SEE PHOTO-----COMPLETE, ORIGINAL NEWSPAPER, the
_Friends Intelligencer_
(Philadelphia, PA) dated September 11, 1862, with fantastic Quaker and African-American history!
A COMPELLING addition to any fine CIVIL WAR collection. This historic piece is more than 150 years old
On May 27, 1861, Major General Benjamin Butler made his famous "contraband" decision, or "Fort Monroe Doctrine", determining that escaping male slaves who reached Union lines would be considered contraband and not be returned to bondage. The order resulted in thousands of slaves fleeing to Union lines around Fort Monroe, which was Butler's headquarters in Virginia. Fort Monroe became called "Freedom's Fortress", as any slave reaching it would be free. In the Summer of 1861, one escaped slave named Harry Jarvis made his way to Fort Monroe and insisted General Butler let him enlist. Butler refused because he believed "it wasn't a black man's war." Jarvis replied, "It would be a black man's war," due to the presence of the incoming of thousands of runaway slaves. This marked a sudden shift in the war. By the fall, the Army had built the Great Contraband Camp to try to house the families. It was the first of more than 100 that would be established by war's end, and the Roanoke Island Freedmen's Colony (1863
–1867), which started as a contraband camp.
Very Good condition.
This listing includes the complete entire original newspaper.
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