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70, [2 blanks] pp. Disbound. Light rubberstamp on title page, duplicate rubberstamp on blank portion of its verso. Errata on verso of title page. Clean text. Good plus. "A slave, Sally Miller, had sued her owner for her freedom on the ground that she was of German descent, having been sold into slavery as an immigrant child" [Cohen]. The Louisiana Supreme Court agreed with her, and released her from slavery. The Court's decision is reported at 11 Robinson's Reports 339. "In this work, Miller, the slave owner who sold her to Belmonti, purports to refute her story and a pamphlet in her defense apparently written by her attorney, W. S. Upton" [Cohen]. Young German immigrant Salome Muller, after an arduous journey to New Orleans, was at the age of four, "sold into indentured servitude. Almost as soon as they landed in the United States, the Müllers found themselves headed to Acadiana as agricultural laborers. A quarter century after the family s tragic trip, Salome Mullerresurfaced at a cafe on the riverfront in New Orleans, where she was recognized by a German woman who had known her extended family. Mrs. Karl Rouff was surprised to see Salome Muller, not only because the German community had long given up hope of learning what happened to the Muller children, but because Salome was no longer indentured. She was enslaved, the property of New Orleanian Louis Belmonti. The little German orphan girl had come back - -but now she was Black" [Simon]. Excellent sources for this unusual and interesting case are: Simon, "Sally Miller or Salomé Müller? The 'White Slavery' Court Case That Riveted 19th-Century America," online Historic New Orleans Collection [2023]; and Wilson, Sally Muller, the White Slave, in 40 Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association 133-153 [1999]. FIRST EDITION. Jumonville 1404. Cohen 11867. OCLC 13182985 [5- Harv., Harv. Med., LSU, Duke, Temple U] as of April 2026.
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