The Lost German Slave Girl: The Extraordinary True Story Of Sally Miller And Her Fight For Freedom In Old New Orleans
by John Bailey /
2005 / English / Kindle, EPUB, Mobipocket
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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 a face from her past. It is the face of a
German girl, Sally Miller, who disappeared twenty-five years
earlier. But the young woman is property, the slave of a nearby
cabaret owner. She has no memory of a "white" past. Yet her
resemblance to her mother is striking, and she bears two telltale
birthmarks. In brilliant novelistic detail, award-winning
historian John Bailey reconstructs the exotic sights, sounds, and
smells of mid-nineteenth-century New Orleans, as well as the
incredible twists and turns of Sally Miller's celebrated and
sensational case. 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, part African, and a
slave for life? A tour de force of investigative history that
reads like a suspense novel,
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 a face from her past. It is the face of a
German girl, Sally Miller, who disappeared twenty-five years
earlier. But the young woman is property, the slave of a nearby
cabaret owner. She has no memory of a "white" past. Yet her
resemblance to her mother is striking, and she bears two telltale
birthmarks. In brilliant novelistic detail, award-winning
historian John Bailey reconstructs the exotic sights, sounds, and
smells of mid-nineteenth-century New Orleans, as well as the
incredible twists and turns of Sally Miller's celebrated and
sensational case. 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, part African, and a
slave for life? A tour de force of investigative history that
reads like a suspense novel,The Lost German Slave Girl
The Lost German Slave Girl is
a fascinating exploration of slavery and its laws, a brilliant
reconstruction of mid-nineteenth-century New Orleans, and a
riveting courtroom drama. It is also an unforgettable portrait of
a young woman in pursuit of freedom.
is
a fascinating exploration of slavery and its laws, a brilliant
reconstruction of mid-nineteenth-century New Orleans, and a
riveting courtroom drama. It is also an unforgettable portrait of
a young woman in pursuit of freedom.