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The lost German slave girl, the extraordinary true story of the slave Sally Miller and her fight for freedom, John Bailey

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The lost German slave girl, the extraordinary true story of the slave Sally Miller and her fight for freedom, John Bailey

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eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 258-268)

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individual biography

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The lost German slave girl

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

55738066

Responsibility statement

John Bailey

Sub title

the extraordinary true story of the slave Sally Miller and her fight for freedom

Summary

Louisiana, 1843: a German immigrant thinks she recognizes a young slave girl as the long-lost daughter of her German friend, but the girl has no memory of such a past, and her owner refuses to free her. In novelistic detail, historian John Bailey reconstructs the exotic sights, sounds, and smells of mid-nineteenth-century New Orleans, an "infernal motley crew" of cotton kings, decadent river workers, immigrants, and slaves. The dramatic trial offers an eye into the fascinating laws and customs surrounding slavery, immigration, and racial mixing, pitting a humble community of German immigrants against a hardened capitalist, as respected for his wealth and power as he is feared and distrusted, and his attorney, one of the brashest and most flamboyant lawyers of his time

Table Of Contents

Mary Miller -- Children of slaves -- Year without summer -- New Orleans -- Sally Miller -- John Fitz Miller -- Bridget Wilson -- Salome Muller -- First District Judicial Court of New Orleans -- Defense -- Judgment -- Appeal -- Presumption in favor of liberty -- Children of Salome Muller -- Polly Moore -- Nullity -- Woman who remembered nothing

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Extraordinary true story of the slave Sally Miller and her fight for freedom

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