African-American Contraband Fund Autographed Document. for Self-Emancipated Freedmen, 1863.
[Slavery and Emancipation][Civil War] Autographed document regarding the Contraband Fund, 20 February 1863, constitutes material evidence of the Union Army’s fiscal administration of aid to self-emancipated African Americans during the Civil War. Created in Washington, DC at a moment when federal emancipation policy was shifting from military necessity to structured.....
