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Original Title:	The Lost German Slave Girl: The Extraordinary True Story of Sally Miller and Her Fight for Freedom in Old New Orleans
ISBN:	080214229X (ISBN13: 9780802142290)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	New Orleans, Louisiana(United States)

The Lost German Slave Girl: The Extraordinary True Story of Sally Miller and Her Fight for Freedom in Old New Orleans Paperback | Pages: 268 pages

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Title	:	The Lost German Slave Girl: The Extraordinary True Story of Sally Miller and Her Fight for Freedom in Old New Orleans
Author	:	John Bailey
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 268 pages
Published	:	November 29th 2005 by Grove Press (first published December 31st 2002)
Categories	:	History. Nonfiction. Biography. Historical. North American Hi.... American History. Mystery. Literature. 19th Century

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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, 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.

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This is one of those rare books that incorporates both non-fiction and fiction to come up with a real page turner. Best described as a legal drama, the story follows the real legal case of the enslaved Sally Miller against her owner. Told mostly through her lawyers point of view and that of her advocates, it must be proved that Sally is white, without a drop of African blood, in order to gain her freedom. What happens is spell-binding. Along the way are explanations of the sickening legalities

Though intended to tell the story of a lost German immigrant girl who became a slave in early 19th Century New Orleans, the book tells a number of stories. It tells the story of how slave laws were refined in devious yet ingenious ways to make it ever so difficult for slaves and their children to gain their freedom. The book also shows how the legal system we see at work in the United States today was fully functional already 200 years agoincluding the rich being able to buy the best legal

I re -read the last three chapters, as soon as I completed this book. I cant recommend highly enough!

The Lost German Slave Girl is about Salome Muller/Sally Miller/Bridget Wilson, a German redemptioner child from Germanya small child sold into indentured servitude in 1840s New Orleans for the price of her passage from Amsterdam.A German woman walked by a cabaret one day and saw a young slave woman sitting on the steps and did a double take: surely this was her long-lost goddaughter, Salome! She takes the Slave, Sally, into her home (stealing her from her owner) and begins the quest for Sallys

This an exceptional book that provides a harrowing look into the practice of slavery in the United States, and particularly in Louisiana. Sally Miller was a slave who was identified by German immigrants to the United States as the daughter of a woman who died during the horrific passage to New Orleans from Germany. This identification came over 20 years after she and the remnants of her family disappeared after being sold into indentured servitude to pay off the cost of their passage to the

Turned out to be better than I initially thought it would be. And that's because I envisioned it being more of an academic writing. After reading the introduction, I was struck by the author's passion to delve into the story of Sally Miller. He initially set out to write a book about some of the peculiar laws that permeated the South during slavery. However, when he came across the most interesting story of Sally Miller, he dropped his entire project and begin to follow the story of the lost

Well placed and clearThe author does an excellent job of making the villain in this work villainous although he was ultimately, at least in the legal sense at the time, in the right. That made this really enjoyable. I love a tale of comeuppance.