Lost German Slave Girl Report
Carolina Sandlin
HIST-344
Dr. Pitzulo
February 28, 2016
Book Review: "The Lost German Slave Girl"
In 1843, a Louisianan woman by the name of Madame Carl Rouff stumbled on someone that she had known who had been missing for years; Salome Muller. With a plethora of questions concerning where Salome had been all this time as well as why she appeared to be dressed as a slave, John Bailey writes about in his novel titled "The Lost German Slave Girl". In this book, Bailey touches on many aspects of Salome Muller's peculiar life, ranging from the specifics of her legal case to regain her freedom from slavery, to what society was like in nineteenth-century New Orleans, Louisiana. He also ...
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as a slave. They and several others who support Salome concoct a plan to take her away from her master, Louis Belmonti, and began looking for legal help to make a case. Salome worked for Belmonti as a servant in the cabaret that he owned, and when she escaped, they named him as the defendant in the legal case to regain her freedom. John Bailey gives the audience a thorough description of Salome's parents in Germany, how they made the decision to come to America. When the Muller family made the leap to move to America, they gave their life savings to the owner of the ship who said he was going to America. He eventually showed himself to be a con artist, taking their money with him with abandoning them on the streets of Amsterdam, along with about 900 other people. Desperate and out of money, they went on another ship and agreed to be 'redemptioners', which was an American trend at the time that essentially meant that when the ship arrived to the United States, the captain would ...
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Salome remained in their care for eleven years, and then sold her to Louis Belmonti after going bankrupt. Sarah Canby argues that she was an extremely promiscuous and challenging slave to own, as she would often "go out of her way to engage visitors in conversation, especially the gentlemen... Mrs. Canby told Mary (as she was called by them at that time) that she was too bold with company" (page 98). Salome (or Sally, the Americanized version of her German name), obtained a lawyer by the name of Wheelock S. Upton, who was determined to win her freedom. They take the case to the First District Court, where for several reasons (including the defendant's powerful lawyer John Grymes and the ...
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