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A Case of Mistaken Identity?

Monday, September 05, 2005

In 1843 a slave in New Orleans was pointed out as bearing a striking resemblance to a German girl who had disappeared 25 years earlier. In The Lost German Slave Girl, John Bailey traces the odd case that put one woman’s identity on trial.

Music: Sweet Sixteenths, William H. Krell, William Albright, and William Bolcom: "Ragtime Nightingale"


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