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A carregar... The lost German slave girl (2003)por John Bailey
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Was Sally Miller a German woman illegally enslaved as a child or a black woman trying to "pass" and escape the bonds of slavery? ( ) For nonfiction this is quite the page turner. The author I includes just enough background along with the story to keep the account flowing. An amazing story of a slave girl because she appears white and is recognized as a long lost relative makes a legal claim to freedom with the help of the German community in New Orleans. The author, John Bailey who is a lawyer, started out writing a book on the legalities of slavery in the Southern states running up to the Civil War, and in the course of his research came across the story of the lost German slave girl. That historical woman took over his imagination and his book and this is the result. It's a fascinating and bittersweet story, and has much of the writer's research results all through it. No one could do that research or read this book and ever again claim that slaves had any legal rightss, any dignity, or even humanity under Southern slavery, where slaveowners were protected to the nth. Many a twist and turn in this narrative. This was quite the story with many twists and turns. Learned a lot about laws regarding slavery, which for the most part was interesting although at times it did make the story drag. I was impressed when I read the author was a lawyer. He did a great job of breaking down what was pertinent to the average reader or lay person and making that information easy to understand as well. Recommended for those looking for a different take on a story of slavery. OMG! I just peeled my eyeballs from the last pages of this exceedingly dry, boring book. Shoot! Had to read it for reading group. I don't think I ever gave a book a one rating. But this deserved it. No doubt about it. The story didn't interest me. I think it was partly due to the author's style. I was even rooting for the slaveholders at one point just to make the story a bit more interesting. Let's not go here again! sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
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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. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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