"A Rare Phenomenon of Philological Vegetation": The Word "Contraband" and the Meanings of Emancipation in the United States

2007/03/01 by Kate Masur · 1 voice
Social Sciences · Business, Management and Accounting · #Race, History, and American Society #American History and Culture #American Constitutional Law and Politics

paper · doi:10.2307/25094596

Abstract

Journal Article "A Rare Phenomenon of Philological Vegetation": The Word "Contraband" and the Meanings of Emancipation in the United States Get access Kate Masur Kate Masur professor of history at Northwestern University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 93, Issue 4, March 2007, Pages 1050–1084, https://doi.org/10.2307/25094596 Published: 01 March 2007

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• In the 2007 article linked below, @katemasur.bsky.social relies significantly - tho definitely not only! - on newspapers to trace Civil War usage of the term "contraband" to refer to refugees from sla [bsky, 10 points, 2 comments]

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