intelligent contraband
US
noun
(During the American Civil War) a slave, especially a fugitive or captured slave in Union-occupied territory.
- Such slaves often provided military intelligence to the Union forces..
Origin
Mid 19th century.
- call on
- callop
- call option
- call (or bring) someone to account
- callosity
- callous
- calloused
- callously
- callousness
- call-out
- call-over
- callow
- Calloway, Cab
- callowly
- callowness
- call return
- call shotgun
- call sign
- call signal
- call someone in
- call someone in evidence
- call someone names
- call someone on something
- call someone out
- call someone out on something