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| Keywords: Fort monroe doctrine cartoon.jpg Cartoon of Fort Monroe Virginia depicting slaves rushing to the Union held fort for escape during the American Civil War Library of Congress 1861 Public domain Info from LOC page TITLE The Fort Monroe Doctrine CALL NUMBER PC/US - 1861 A000 no 40 B size <P P>P P REPRODUCTION NUMBER LC-USZ62-36161 b w film copy neg SUMMARY On May 27 1861 Benjamin Butler commander of the Union army in Virginia and North Carolina decreed that slaves who fled to Union lines were legitimate contraband of war and were not subject to return to their Confederate owners The declaration precipitated scores of escapes to Union lines around Fortress Monroe Butler's headquarters in Virginia In this crudely drawn caricature a slave stands before the Union fort taunting his plantation master The planter right waves his whip and cries Come back you black rascal The slave replies Can't come back nohow massa Dis chile's contraban Hordes of other slaves are seen leaving the fields and heading toward the fort MEDIUM 1 print Lithograph on wove paper ; 23 1 x 36 5 cm image CREATED/PUBLISHED 1861 NOTES Title appears as it is written on the item Weitenkampf p 126 Published in American political prints 1766-1876 / Bernard F Reilly Boston G K Hall 1991 entry 1861-37 TOPICS Butler Gen Benjamin F Fort Monroe Plantations and planters Slaves and slavery slaves as contraband of war FORMAT Political cartoons Lithographs REPOSITORY Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington D C 20540 USA DIGITAL ID b w film copy neg cph 3a36574 http //hdl loc gov/loc pnp/cph 3a36574 CARD app1994000503/PP PD-old 1861 cartoons Slavery in Virginia American Civil War cartoons African Americans in art 1861 African American history of the 1860s African American Civil War history Fort Monroe Virginia 1860s political cartoons of the United States Africans in 19th-century art 1861 Benjamin Franklin Butler politician | ||||
