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

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bailey, John, 1944 December 15-
Language:English
Published: New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, [2005], 2003.
Edition:First American edition.
Subjects:
Müller, Salomé, > approximately 1809-
Müller, Salomé, > approximately 1809- > Trials, litigation, etc.
Enslaved persons > Louisiana > New Orleans > Biography.
Women, White > Louisiana > New Orleans > Biography.
German Americans > Louisiana > New Orleans > Biography.
Trials > Louisiana > New Orleans.
Enslaved persons > Emancipation > Louisiana > New Orleans.
Slavery > Social aspects > Louisiana > New Orleans > History > 19th century.
New Orleans (La.) > Race relations.
New Orleans (La.) > Biography.
Genre:
Trials, litigation, etc.
Biography.
Physical Description:xiii, 268 pages ; 24 cm
Format: Book

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