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Beyond Freedom’s Reach : A Kidnapping in the Twilight of Slavery / Adam Rothman.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Edition: Pilot project,eBook available to selected US libraries onlyDescription: 1 online resource (288 p.) : 8 halftones, 2 maps, 1 tableContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674425132
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.362092
LOC classification:
  • E185.93.L6 .R58 2015
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Cast of Characters -- Prologue -- 1. Pointe Coupée -- 2. New Orleans -- 3. War -- 4. Justice -- 5. Reunion -- Epilogue -- Appendix. Abbreviations. Notes. Acknowledgments. Index -- Appendix. Rose Herera’s Petition -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index
Summary: 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.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9780674425132

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Cast of Characters -- Prologue -- 1. Pointe Coupée -- 2. New Orleans -- 3. War -- 4. Justice -- 5. Reunion -- Epilogue -- Appendix. Abbreviations. Notes. Acknowledgments. Index -- Appendix. Rose Herera’s Petition -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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