| Edition |
First American edition. |
| Description |
xiii, 268 pages ; 24 cm |
| Note |
"First published in 2003 in Australia by Pan Macmillan Australia Pty Limited, Sydney, Australia"--T.p. verso. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 258-268). |
| Contents |
Mary Miller -- Children of slaves -- Year without summer -- New Orleans -- Sally Miller -- John Fitz Miller -- Bridget Wilson -- Salome Muller -- First District Judicial Court of New Orleans -- Defense -- Judgment -- Appeal -- Presumption in favor of liberty -- Children of Salome Muller -- Polly Moore -- Nullity -- Woman who remembered nothing. |
| Summary |
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 mid-nineteenth-century New Orleans, an "infernal motley crew" of cotton kings, decadent river workers, immigrants, and slaves. The dramatic trial offers an eye into the fascinating laws and customs surrounding slavery, immigration, and racial mixing, pitting a humble community of German immigrants against a hardened capitalist, as respected for his wealth and power as he is feared and distrusted, and his attorney, one of the brashest and most flamboyant lawyers of his time. |
| Study Program |
Accelerated Reader AR UG 8.6 18.0 114329. |
| Subject |
Enslaved persons -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- Biography.
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New Orleans (La.) -- Race relations.
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German Americans -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- Biography.
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Müller, Salomé, approximately 1809- -- Trials, litigation, etc.
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Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- Louisiana -- New Orleans.
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Women, White -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- Biography.
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Müller, Salomé, approximately 1809-
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Slavery -- Social aspects -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History -- 19th century.
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New Orleans (La.) -- Biography.
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Trials -- Louisiana -- New Orleans.
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| ISBN |
0871139219 |
| Standard No. |
9780871139214 |
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