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Fort Monroe and the contraband decision
1861
Fort Monroe, Hampton, Virginia
On 23 May 1861 three enslaved men, Frank Baker, Shepard Mallory and James Townsend, escaped to Fort Monroe, a Union fort in Confederate Virginia. General Benjamin Butler refused to send them back, calling them contraband of war, and within weeks hundreds more had come. The same point of land, then Point Comfort, is where about 20 Africans were brought ashore from the ship White Lion in August 1619, among the first recorded in English America.
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