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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

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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 (p. 258-268)
resource.biographical
individual biography
Index
no index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
The lost German slave girl
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
55738066
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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. 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
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