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How a Freed Slave Fought for Her Kidnapped Children

HARD CHANGES

The Civil War may have been over, but former slave Rose Herera still had to fight to get back her children that had been taken to Cuba, where slavery was still legal.

Jason Berry

Published May 4 2015 5:15AM EDT

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Jason Berry

Jason Berry

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