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The Lost German Slave Girl The Extraordinary True Story of the Slave Sally Miller and Her Fight for Freedom in Old New Orleans Hardcover - 2004

by John Bailey


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It is a spring morning in New Orleans, 1843. In the Spanish Quarter, on a street lined with flophouses and gambling dens, Madame Carl recognizes the face of a German girl who disappeared twenty-five years earlier. But the olive-skinned woman is a slave, with no memory of a white past. And yet her resemblance to her mother is striking, and she bears two telltale birthmarks. Had a defenseless European orphan been illegally enslaved, or was she an imposter? So begins one of the most celebrated and sensational trials of nineteenth-century America. In brilliant novelistic detail, award-winning historian John Bailey uses Miller's dramatic trial to describe the fascinating laws and customs surrounding slavery, immigration, and racial mixing. Did Miller, as her relatives sought to prove, arrive from Germany under perilous circumstances as an indentured servant or was she, as her master claimed, a slave for life? The trial pits a humble community of German immigrants against a hardened capitalist and one of the most flamboyant lawyers of his time. Bailey follows the case's incredible twists and turns all the way to the Supreme Court and comes to a shocking conclusion in this investigative history that reads like a suspense novel.

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This much we know: that on a bright, spring morning in 1843, Madame Carl Rouff left her timber-framed house in Lafayette to travel across New Orleans to visit a friend who lived in the Faubourg Marigny.

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  • Title The Lost German Slave Girl The Extraordinary True Story of the Slave Sally Miller and Her Fight for Freedom in Old New Orleans
  • Author John Bailey
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 268
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Atlantic Monthly Press, New York
  • Date December 6, 2004
  • ISBN 9780871139214
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