TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rothman,Adam
TI  - Beyond freedom's reach: kidnapping in the twilight of slavery 
SN  - 9780674425132
AV  - E185 .B496 2015
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Cambridge, Massachusetts
PB  - Harvard University Press
KW  - Herrera, Rose,
KW  - African American women
KW  - Louisiana
KW  - Biography
KW  - Freed persons
KW  - Kidnapping
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Legal status, laws, etc
KW  - Custody of children
KW  - Case studies
KW  - Mother and child
KW  - Slavery
KW  - Cuba
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Prologue --; Pointe Coupée --; New Orleans --; War --; Justice --; Reunion --; Epilogue --; Appendix: Rose Herera's petition; 2; b
N2  - Born into slavery in rural Louisiana, Rose Herera was bought and sold several times before being purchased by the De Hart family of New Orleans. Still a slave, she married and had children, who also became the property of the De Harts. But after Union forces captured New Orleans in 1862 during the American Civil War, Herera's owners fled to Havana, taking three of her small children with them. Just how far the rights of freed slaves extended was unclear to black and white people alike, and so when Mary De Hart returned to New Orleans in 1865 to visit friends, she was surprised to find herself taken into custody as a kidnapper. The case of Rose Herera's abducted children made its way through New Orleans' courts, igniting a custody battle that revealed the prospects and limits of justice during Reconstruction. Rose Herera's perseverance brought her children's plight to the attention of members of the U.S. Senate and State Department, who turned a domestic conflict into an international scandal
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