The Two Lives of Sally Miller: A Case of Mistaken Racial Identity in Antebellum New Orleans by Carol Wilson

The Two Lives of Sally Miller: A Case of Mistaken Racial Identity in Antebellum New Orleans

Carol Wilson

158 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction autobiography biography emotional informative reflective medium-paced

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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 caf, might not have known she had a ca...

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