Beyond Freedom’s Reach: A Kidnapping in the Twilight of Slavery

I saw a passing reference to this book in another and it is an interesting example of using a snapshot as a way to tell a wider story. The actual case (New Orleans slave has three of her kids taken to Cuba in the midst of the Civil War and she later fights back) covers a limited amount of the book while we get a lot of background material. This is a useful approach to me as seen in various books about Supreme Court cases. Timely for Black History Month.