TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rothman,Adam
TI  - Beyond Freedom’s Reach: A Kidnapping in the Twilight of Slavery 
SN  - 9780674425132
AV  - E185.93.L6 .R58 2015
U1  - 306.362092 
PY  - 2015///]
CY  - Cambridge, MA : 
PB  - Harvard University Press, 
KW  - African American women
KW  - Louisiana
KW  - Biography
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Legal status, laws, etc
KW  - Custody of children
KW  - United States
KW  - Case studies
KW  - Freed persons
KW  - Freedmen
KW  - Kidnapping
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Mother and child
KW  - Slavery
KW  - Cuba
KW  - HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - 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; restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674425132
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674425132
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780674425132/original
ER  -