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Beyond Freedom’s Reach: A Kidnapping in the Twilight of Slavery
Harvard University Press, 2015 eISBN: 978-0-674-42513-2 | Cloth: 978-0-674-36812-5 Library of Congress Classification E185.93.L6R58 2015 Dewey Decimal Classification 306.362092
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
After Union forces captured New Orleans in 1862, Rose Herera’s owners fled to Havana, taking her three children with them. Adam Rothman tells the story of Herera’s quest to rescue her children from bondage after the war. As the kidnapping case made its way through the courts, it revealed the prospects and limits of justice during Reconstruction. See other books on: African American women | Cuba | Freedmen | Louisiana | Mother and child See other titles from Harvard University Press |
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Beyond Freedom’s Reach: A Kidnapping in the Twilight of Slavery
ABOUT THIS BOOK | TOC
Harvard University Press, 2015
eISBN: 978-0-674-42513-2
Cloth: 978-0-674-36812-5
eISBN: 978-0-674-42513-2
Cloth: 978-0-674-36812-5
After Union forces captured New Orleans in 1862, Rose Herera’s owners fled to Havana, taking her three children with them. Adam Rothman tells the story of Herera’s quest to rescue her children from bondage after the war. As the kidnapping case made its way through the courts, it revealed the prospects and limits of justice during Reconstruction.
ABOUT THIS BOOK | TOC
