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The Two Lives of Sally Miller
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. This text explores this legal case and its reflection on broader questions about race, society, and law in the antebellum South.
The Lost German Slave Girl
A fascinating exploration of slavery and its laws and an unforgettable portrait of a young woman in pursuit of freedom. “Reads like a legal thriller” (The Washington Post). It is a spring morning in New Orleans, 1843. In the Spanish Quarter, on a street lined with flophouses and gambling dens, Madame Carl recognizes a face from her past. It is the face of a German girl, Sally Miller, who disappeared twenty-five years earlier. But the young woman is property, the slave of a nearby cabaret owner. She has no memory of a “white” past. Yet her resemblance to her mother is striking, and she bears two telltale birthmarks. In brilliant novelistic detail, award-winning historian John Bailey r...
The Lost German Slave Girl
Historical narrative based in 19th century America, about the battle to free an enslaved German girl. In 1843 New Orleans, Madame Carl recognises the daughter of her closest friend who she last saw 25 years ago. The young woman is the slave of a Frenchman owner of a nearby caberet. Narrative examines slavery laws during the 19th century, describes the court room drama surrounding the case, and offers a portrait of a young woman in pursuit of freedom. Includes endnotes. Author is winner of the NSW Premier's Award for History, and the WA Premier's Literary Award for Non-fiction. He has previously written 'The White Divers of Broome'.
Belongings
Land used to produce food is at the core of disputes, violent conflicts and despair across the world. As farmers increasingly can no longer afford to grow food and as one in ten Canadians faces food insecurity each year, it is clear that our culture-specific land systems lie at the heart of the current food and farm crises. Solutions must be implemented to ensure food security and food sovereignty in Canada and the world. In Belongings, Sally Miller illustrates how food and farm crises result from adherence to the rules of private property. Miller looks at the state of farmland and farmers in Canada and across the world as a way of understanding ownership, land regulation and the dire situat...
Divine Love
Women everywhere—regardless of age or background—want to experience a life-altering, gentle, everyday kind of love. For years now we have looked at bars, yacht clubs, churches, synagogues, casinos, the farmer’s market, dating services, and the Internet trying to find it. Just when we think we have it, we discover that mere mortals—no matter how perfect—cannot offer the kind of love our hearts hunger for. How is it that some women through history and today seem to have found the love we all so desperately seek? Divine Love: Women Who Have It and How You Can Too is a narrative nonfiction that carries women through the pages of history to our streets today to see real women who experienced God’s indescribable love. Through the remarkable stories of women such as Joan of Arc, Julian of Norwich, Pocahontas, the woman of Endor, Harriet Tubman, Xio Min, and more, women will see extraordinary love can be experienced when seeking it from the Divine.
Sherlock Holmes in a New Light
What became of the cases Sherlock Holmes failed to solve? The mysteries that remained unsolved, the riddles that never found their explanation? Now, the truth behind these secret stories is finally revealed, straight from Dr. Watson’s pen. In this exclusive collection, readers will embark on five thrilling adventures that Holmes never allowed to be published. From the perplexing affair at the Ingraham Institute to the mysterious case of Harun al Rashid’s manuscript, the master detective’s abilities are challenged as never before. Experience Holmes and Watson at their most vulnerable, where brilliance meets adversity and even the keenest minds can be led astray. These stories cast new l...
The Averys of Groton
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Edible Action
"Hunger is up, obesity is up, food-borne illness is up, farms are lost to debt and despair; the food system fails growing numbers of people across the world every day. Yet if we adjust our lens, we see ubiquitous commitments to change: food movements and enterprises dedicated to making the world a better place to eat and to live. Food initiatives - from farmers’ markets to fair trade coffee - offer a pattern of powerful alternatives to conventional food economics, which benefit only a handful of people and corporations. Edible Action argues that food is peculiarly situated to address the ills of an unjust economic system and to mobilize people against it."--pub. desc.
Free Blacks, Slaves, and Slaveowners in Civil and Criminal Courts
Free Blacks, Slaves, and Slaveowners in Civil and Criminal Courts: The Pamphlet Literature. New York & London: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1988. 2 Vols. 642 pp. With a New Introduction by Paul Finkelman. Reprinted 2007, 2013 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781584777427; ISBN-10: 1584777427. Hardcover. New. 14 Pamphlets reprinted in fascimile, in 2 volumes, with a New Introduction by Paul Finkelman: 1. Goodell, Abner Cheney Jr. The Trial and Execution, for Petit Treason, of Mark and Phillis, Slaves of Capt. John Codman, Who Murdered Their Master at Charleston, Mass., in 1755; for which the Man was Hanged and Gibbeted, and the Woman was Burned to Death, Including, also, Some Account of O...
