JasonSJackson
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During the civil war, after Congress finally initiated an act to "protect" slaves (contrabands is what they called them) that had made it to union fortifications/encampments from their pursuers (who up until that point had the legal rights to have them returned), a place in dc named Duff Green's Row was established to house them. There's no wikipedia page for it and, besides this link, google search turns up little information about it. Why is that?
Anyways, If you're interested in reading a first hand account of the conditions "contrabands" lived through at this place and a few others like it
Harriet Jacobs' report "Life Among the Contrabands," in <i>The Liberator</i> September 5, 1862
Anyways, If you're interested in reading a first hand account of the conditions "contrabands" lived through at this place and a few others like it
Harriet Jacobs' report "Life Among the Contrabands," in <i>The Liberator</i> September 5, 1862