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Authors: Michael Anthony Ross
Categories: History
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Recounts a famous kidnapping that took place in New Orleans in 1870, in which a seventeen-month-old white child was taken by two African-American women, and the
Freedom at Risk
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Authors: Carol Wilson
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-10-21 - Publisher: University Press of Kentucky

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Kidnapping was perhaps the greatest fear of free blacks in pre-Civil War America. Though they may have descended from generations of free-born people or worked
The Kidnap Years
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Pages: 489
Authors: David Stout
Categories: True Crime
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-04-07 - Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.

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A chilling true crime book that chronicles the wave of abductions that terrorized the U.S. during the Great Depression, including the most infamous kidnapping c
Beyond Freedom’s Reach
Language: en
Pages: 280
Authors: Adam Rothman
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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 Her
A Place Unchanged: A New Orleans Mystery
Language: en
Pages: 244
Authors: George Joseph Sanchez Sr
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The third Jeff Chaussier mystery finds Jeff returning to New Orleans. This time he has marriage on his mind. New Orleans, though, is far too seductive a lady an