In 1844, New Orleans slave Sally Miller claimed to be a free German immigrant pressed into bondage

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I should probably just listen to the pod, but this summary is confusing; is there a difference between a “slave” and a “free immigrant pressed into bondage”?

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I think the difference was a legalistic one: the first was legal, the second not.

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Only “certain” people could be legally enslaved. Her claim was based on that legal status.

Obviously the case highlighted just how dehumanizing and hypocritical the entire practice of slavery was regardless of the victims.

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Like the movie 12 Years a Slave.

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What an incredible story. It helps illustrate the abject cancer that is slavery and how it’s a rot on everything that is - or at least should be - humanity.

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