false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172461928m/178466.jpg 178466 5 <div>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, <i>The Lost German Slave Girl</i> 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. </div> 2954537 29 11 2006 The Lost German Slave Girl: The Extraordinary True Story of Sally Miller and Her Fight for Freedom in Old New Orleans total:196|5:40|4:71|3:68|2:15|1:2| 196 720 316 52 4 0 false false Wed Oct 07 01:16:35 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 07 01:46:28 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Thu Feb 05 09:31:25 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 09:31:25 -0800 2009 Critics found few faults with Bailey's meticulous research and credited him for including all the elements of epic historical fiction in a nonfiction book. The narrative functions well on two levels: it's both a riveting story and an intriguing history lesson, made more so with fine portraits of col...

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