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| contraband |
during the American Civil War, a slave under the Confederacy who fled to or was taken into territory occupied by Union forces. Such fugitive slaves were, in a sense, free, in that they were not returned by the Union to Confederate slave owners. Instead, however, they were declared captured enemy war materials, or "contraband of war." Thousands of contrabands worked as paid, though exploited, laborers for the Union. [1/5 definitions] |
| extradite |
to transfer (a fugitive) from one state or jurisdiction to another in which he or she is to be tried or imprisoned. |
| extradition |
the legal transfer of a fugitive from one state or jurisdiction to another where he or she is to be tried or imprisoned. |
| manhunt |
an organized, intensive search, usu. for a fugitive or fugitives from the law. |
| maroon2 |
any of a group of West Indians who are descended from fugitive African slaves of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. [1/3 definitions] |
| outlaw |
a fugitive from justice. [1/5 definitions] |
| runaway |
one who has fled or run away; fugitive. [1/6 definitions] |
| underground railroad |
(often cap.) a secret system established by former slaves and abolitionists before the U.S. Civil War to help fugitive slaves reach places of safety. |
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