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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

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It is a spring morning in New Orleans, 1843. Within the Spanish Quarter, on a street lined with flophouses and gambling dens, Madame Carl recognizes a face from her past. It’s the face of a German girl, Sally Miller, who disappeared twenty-five years in advance. However 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, in addition to the implausible twists and turns of Sally Miller’s celebrated and sensational case. Did Miller, as her relatives sought to turn out, arrive from Germany under perilous circumstances as an indentured servant or used to be 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 is an engaging exploration of slavery and its laws, a brilliant reconstruction of mid-nineteenth-century New Orleans, and a riveting courtroom drama. It is usually an unforgettable portrait of a young woman in pursuit of freedom.
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