Summary In the story of My contraband also referred as the brothers (1863), Louisa May Alcott perceives human bondage as an aspect that has caused more misery and suffering to the human soul in comparison to other atrocities which man has ever encountered. In essence, the story is concerned with one of the America’s Civil wars with focus on an attack on Fort Wagner. During the course of the civil war, two siblings, one who is half-black and the other a white meet in a health facility.