Keywords: Contrabands at Headquarters of General Lafayette by Mathew Brady.jpg en Text from below the photo Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1862 by Barnard Gibson in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Columbia <br /> Contrabands at Headquarters of General Lafayette black-and-white photograph on carte de visite mount by the American photographer Mathew Brady 'Contrabands' was an expression coined by General Benjamin F Butler to describe escaped slaves Image courtesy of Randolph Linsly Simpson African-American collection Beinecke Rare Book Manuscript Library Yale University New Haven Conn Beinecke Rare Book Manuscript Library Yale University http //beinecke library yale edu/dl_crosscollex/brbldl/oneITEM asp pid 2111696 iid 1350343 srchtype Mathew B Brady ~ 1862 PD-old-100 Slavery in the United States Mathew Brady Black and white photographic portraits George N Barnard 19th-century military life Soldiers life during the American Civil War Benjamin Franklin Butler politician African American Civil War history |