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

by Carol Wilson and Professor Carol Wilson

Book Overview

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 case were it not for a woman who recognized her as Salom Muller, with whom she had emigrated from Germany over twenty years earlier. Sally decided to sue for her freedom, and was ultimately freed, despite...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813540585
• ISBN13: 9780813540580
• Release Date: March 2007
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.4" x 8.9"