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The Two Lives of Sally Miller: A Case of Mistaken Racial Identity in Antebellum New Orleans
The Two Lives of Sally Miller A Case of Mistaken Racial Identity in Antebellum New Orleans
Author: Carol Wilson
In 1843, the Louisiana Supreme Court heard the case of a slave named Sally Miller, who claimed to have been born a free white person in Germany. Sally, a very light-skinned slave girl working in a New Orleans café, might not have known she had a case were it not for a woman who recognized her as Salomé Muller, with whom she had emigrated...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780813540580
ISBN-10: 0813540585
Publication Date: 7/15/2007
Pages: 158
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Publisher: Rutgers
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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