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2 unusual facts about Contraband


Contraband

This policy was first articulated by General Benjamin F. Butler in 1861, in what came to be known as the "Fort Monroe Doctrine," established in Hampton, Virginia.

By war's end, the Union had set up 100 contraband camps in the South, and the Roanoke Island Freedmen's Colony (1863–1867) was developed to be a self-sustaining colony.


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Caesalpinia echinata

The rich commerce which soon followed stimulated other nations to try to harvest and smuggle brazilwood contraband out of Brazil, and corsairs to attack loaded Portuguese ships in order to steal their cargo.

Cavity Search

Body cavity search, a visual search or a manual internal inspection of body cavities for prohibited material (contraband), such as illegal drugs, money, or weapons

Cigarette smuggling

The proposed Stop Tobacco Smuggling in the Territories Act of 2013 (H.R. 338; 113th Congress), if it passes during the 113th United States Congress, would update the Contraband Cigarette Trafficking Act to include American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and Guam, which were previously not covered by the law.

Contraband Spain

Contraband Spain is a 1956 British-Spanish crime film directed by Lawrence Huntington and starring Richard Greene, Anouk Aimée and Michael Denison.

Corned beef sandwich

A contraband corned beef sandwich brought aboard the Gemini 3 spacecraft resulted in a sandwich in space incident.

Emancipation Oak

In November 1861, the American Missionary Association asked Mary Smith Peake (1823 to 1862) to teach children of freedmen at the contraband camp related to Fort Monroe.

John R. Goldsborough

On 1 June 1861, Union captured a Confederate blockade runner, the schooner C. W. Johnson with a cargo of railroad iron, off the coast of North Carolina; she also captured the blockade runner Amelia, carrying a cargo of contraband from Liverpool, England, off Charleston, South Carolina, on 18 June 1861.

Loveman Noa

On the morning of October 26, 1901 Midshipman Noa, with an armed crew of six men, put off from the Mariveles in a small boat to watch for craft engaged in smuggling contraband from the island of Leyte to Samar.

On the morning of 26 October 1901, Midshipman Noa, with an armed crew of six men, put off from Mariveles in a boat to watch for small craft engaged in smuggling contraband from the island of Leyte to Samar When ready to return to Mariveles, they found the wind and the tide against them.

Maicao

The indigenous Wayuu managed contraband trading routes through Maicao arriving from Aruba, Curaçao, Venezuela and other Caribbean sea territories mostly coffee, alcohol, tobacco and weapons among other taxable articles.

Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts

In accordance with Massachusetts law, police submitted all alleged contraband for chemical testing.

Morteros

It lay on an alternative route to the mining region of Potosí in Peru, it was used as a market for contraband such as slaves to work in the mines and silver.

Old Harry Rocks

Another local legend says that the rocks were named after Harry Paye, the infamous Poole pirate, who stored his contraband nearby.

Open Doors

On 18 June 1981, Open Doors delivered one million contraband Chinese Bibles in one night to a beach near the city of Shantou in southern China on a mission they named Project Pearl.

Owen Orford

The band signed with US Label Portrait, changing their name to Contraband due to the presence of a Dutch band with the same name.

Phyllis Haislip

Her best-known work may be “Lottie’s Courage,” the story of a contraband slave growing up during the American Civil War.

Roanoke Island

The Congregational chaplain Horace James was appointed superintendent of the colony and of other contraband camps in North Carolina.

Salt in the American Civil War

Union general William Tecumseh Sherman once said that "salt is eminently contraband", as an army that has salt can adequately feed its men.

SS Robin Moor

In Congress, isolationist Senator Burton K. Wheeler claimed that 70 percent of the ship's cargo constituted the kind of materials meeting the German and British standards for contraband, defended the legality of Germany's right to destroy her, and characterized Roosevelt's message as an effort to bring the United States into the war.

SS West Lashaway

In 1935, U.S. customs agents uncovered and seized a stash of 1,000 bottles of contraband Scotch whisky on board the ship upon her return from the Cape Verde Islands.

Texan schooner Invincible

Pocket had been en route from Matamoros to Santa Anna's army in Texas with a contraband cargo of flour, rice, lard, biscuit, and 300 kegs of powder.

The Bletchley Circle

The women return to Bletchley Park, now a college, where Alice's daughter is studying to take a Typex machine, from the derelict huts, and instead a find an old Enigma machine, but they still have to find a way to inform Customs and Excise about the contraband which includes the trafficked girls.

USS James Adger

Earl Russell would hear of his mission and set the Law offices of the Crown to work deciding on the status of diplomats as a form of contraband.

William B. Gould I

His great-grandson, William B. Gould IV, served as chair of the National Labor Relations Board from 1994 to 1998 and edited his great-grandfather's diary into a book titled Diary of a Contraband: The Civil War Passage of a Black Sailor.


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