The Lost German Slave Girl

Author : John Bailey
Publisher : Pan MacMillan
ISBN 13 : 9780732911928
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lost German Slave Girl written by John Bailey and published by Pan MacMillan. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historical narrative based in 19th century America, about the battle to free an enslaved German girl. In 1843 New Orleans, Madame Carl recognises the daughter of her closest friend who she last saw 25 years ago. The young woman is the slave of a Frenchman owner of a nearby caberet. Narrative examines slavery laws during the 19th century, describes the court room drama surrounding the case, and offers a portrait of a young woman in pursuit of freedom. Includes endnotes. Author is winner of the NSW Premier's Award for History, and the WA Premier's Literary Award for Non-fiction. He has previously written 'The White Divers of Broome'.

Author : John Bailey
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN 13 : 080219978X
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lost German Slave Girl written by John Bailey and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating exploration of slavery and its laws and an unforgettable portrait of a young woman in pursuit of freedom. “Reads like a legal thriller” (The Washington Post). 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? The Lost German Slave Girl is a tour de force of investigative history that reads like a suspense novel. “Bailey keeps us guessing until the end in this page-turning true courtroom drama of 19th-century New Orleans . . . [He] brings to life the fierce legal proceedings with vivid strokes.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review

Author : John Bailey
Publisher : Turtleback Books
ISBN 13 : 9781417775927
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lost German Slave Girl -Lib written by John Bailey and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 2005-11-01 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In brilliant novelistic detail, an award-winning historian presents the storyof a slave named Sally Miller, who in 1843 was believed by members of the NewOrleans' German community to have been illegally enslaved.

Author : W. E. Poplaski
Publisher : Dog Ear Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1598583794
Total Pages : 457 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 360 Degrees of Reading written by W. E. Poplaski and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do Richard Dawkins, Jackie Robinson, and St Teresa have in common? .They all can be found in this book 360 of Reading is a literature reference guide for high school students. It makes a great stocking stuffer at Christmas, or 'end of school year' gift for that special student. Any student who wants to read great literature will benefit from this book. It has reference pages for 360 books that cover novels, drama, poetry, and a broad range of non-fiction. Each reference page includes bibliographic information, a descriptive note, keywords and more. Furthermore, the books are indexed by author, country of origin, date of first publication, and keywords. It also has an appendix listing an additional forty titles. Twenty-four books by Pulitzer Prize winners and twenty-six books by Nobel Prize in Literature winners are among the works listed in this reference guide.

Author : Patricia C McKissack
Publisher : Scholastic Non-Fiction
ISBN 13 : 1407156845
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Story: Slave Girl written by Patricia C McKissack and published by Scholastic Non-Fiction. This book was released on 2015-07-02 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the slave quarters of Virginia's cotton plantations, people pray for freedom. Everybody's mind is on freedom. But when will it come?

Author : Willa Cather
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307805255
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sapphira and the Slave Girl written by Willa Cather and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-08-24 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her final novel, Willa Cather departed from her usual Great Plains settings to plumb the turbulent relationships between slaves and their owners in the antebellum South. Sapphira and the Slave Girl is set in Virginia just before the Civil War. Sapphira is a slave owner who feels she has come down in the world and channels her resentments into jealousy of her beautiful mulatto slave, Nancy. Sapphira’s daughter Rachel, an abolitionist, opposes her mother’s increasingly shocking attempts to persecute Nancy. The struggles of these three strong-willed women provide rich material for Cather’s narrative art and psychological insight.

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Total Pages : 1298 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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ISBN 13 : 9780780723856
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Download or read book Next Stop, Freedom: The Story of a Slave Girl written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 328 pages
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Author : Harriet Ann Jacobs
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198709870
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl written by Harriet Ann Jacobs and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harriet Jacobs's slave narrative is remarkable for its candid exposure of the sexual abuse suffered by slaves at the hands of their owners. Her sufferings, and eventual escape to the North, are described in vivid detail. This edition also includes her brother's short memoir, 'A True Tale of Slavery'.