General Benjamin Butler decided to classify enslaved men and women who escaped to Union camps in Virginia as "contraband of war," which meant that they were
A) to be returned to their southern owners.
B) not to be harbored nor detained.
C) subject to confiscation by the federal government.
D) now legally free.
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