Glenn H. reviewed on 12/16/2015 + 80 more book reviews

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This book was recommended to me by a friend, thought it questionable because of the content, but read it anyway and glad I did. It is set in New Orleans in the early and mid 1800s and involves the community of German immigrants, their journey to America, and then zeroes in on the life of a slave girl who claims to be the daughter of one of these immigrants who is mislabeled as a black and sold into slavery in near New Orleans, Louisana. The primary emphasis which kept me enthralled was the court case trying to prove her to be white rather than a quadroon lineage having black blood. I learned a great deal about the laws involving the ownership of slaves in the South by reading this informative and interesting novel.

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