Bibliograph

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

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

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 258-268)

resource.biographical

individual biography

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The lost German slave girl

Nature of contents

bibliographydictionaries

Oclc number

881686353

Responsibility statement

John Bailey

Sub title

the extraordinary true story of Sally Miller and her fight for freedom in old New Orleans

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. 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 trial offers an eye into the 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

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