For these have thrown him from one country to another; and at last, into the way of life, which would make him a fit husband for Miss Howe's Townsend with her contrabands.
"Clarissa, Volume 5 (of 9)"
Samuel Richardson
Frequently "contrabands" feel their way through the enemy's pickets under cover of the night, and through the tangled brushwood which abounds, and reach our lines safely.
"Three Years in the Federal Cavalry"
Willard Glazier
On arriving in camp I found that the papers from Washington contained a letter of Secretary Seward, directing General McClellan not to return to their former owners contrabands in our lines.
"Three Years in the Federal Cavalry"
Willard Glazier