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Bibliography for Eulalie Mandeville (CeeCee Macarty)

Alphonso, Gwendoline. "Public & Private Order: Law, Race, Morality, and the Antebellum Courts of Louisiana, 1830-1860." Journal of Southern Legal History, 23 (2015): 117-160.

Ayers, Mimi, "Defending Eulalie" (2018). University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations. 2562.
https://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/2562

Brooks, Alexander, "Under cover of lightness: How mixed-race Americans navigated the racial codes of Antebellum America." 2020. Masters Theses, 2020-current. 48. https://commons.lib.jmu.edu/masters202029/48

Johnson, Penny, "Eulalie de Mandeville: An Ethnohistorical Investigation Challenging Notions of Placage in New Orleans as revealed through The Lived Experiences of a Free Woman of Color" (2010). University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations. 1285.  https://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1285

Long, Carolyn Morrow. Madame Lalaurie, Mistress of the Haunted House. University Press of Florida, 2012.

Morrison, Janet. “‘Big Businesswoman’ Eulalie Mandeville and the World of Female Free Black Entrepreneurs in Antebellum New Orleans.” Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association 62, no. 1 (2021): 61–86. https://www.jstor.org/stable/27000023.

Schweninger, Loren. Black Property Owners in the South, 1790-1915. University of Illinois Press, 1990.

Thompson, Shirley Elizabeth. Exiles at Home: The Struggle to Become American in Creole New Orleans. Harvard University Press, 2009.

Voltz, Noël Mellick. ""It's no Disgrace to a Colored Girl to Placer': Sexual Commodification and Negotiation among Louisiana's "Quadroons," 1805-1860"." Masters thesis. The Ohio State University, 2014.

Welch, Kimberly. “The Stability of Fortunes: A Free Black Woman, Her Legacy, and the Legal Archive in Antebellum New Orleans.” Journal of the Civil War Era 12, no. 4 (2022): 473–502. https://www.jstor.org/stable/27182202.

Wilson, Carol. "Plaçage and the Performance of Whiteness: The Trial of Eulalie Mandeville, Free Colored Woman, of Antebellum New Orleans." American Nineteenth Century History 15, no. 2 (2014): 187-209.

Bibliography for Sally Miller

Sally Miller v. Louis Belmonti and John Miller (called in warranty), First District Court of Louisiana, July 24, 1844, Docket #23,041 (Supreme Court of Louisiana Collection, Earl K. Long Library, University of New Orleans) 

Sally Miller v. Louis Belmonti and John Miller (called in warranty), 11 Rob. 339, Supreme Court of Louisiana, July 16, 1845, Docket #5623, (Supreme Court of Louisiana Collection, Earl K. Long Library, University of New Orleans) 

John F. Miller v. Sally Miller, Fifth District Court of Louisiana, May 17, 1848, Docket #24,454 (Supreme Court of Louisiana Collection, Earl K. Long Library, University of New Orleans) 

John F. Miller v. Sally Miller, 4 La. Ann. 354, Supreme Court of Louisiana, May 21, 1849, Docket #1114, #1024 (Supreme Court of Louisiana Collection, Earl K. Long Library, University of New Orleans) 

Bailey, John. The Lost German Slave Girl: The Extraordinary True Story of Sally Miller and Her Fight for Freedom in Old New Orleans. Grove, 2003.

Gross, Ariela Julie. What blood won't tell: A history of race on trial in America. Harvard University Press, 2008.

Gross, Ariela J. “Litigating Whiteness: Trials of Racial Determination in the Nineteenth-Century South.” The Yale Law Journal 108, no. 1 (1998): 109–88. https://doi.org/10.2307/797472.

Hasian Jr, Marouf. "Performative law and the maintenance of interracial social boundaries: Assuaging antebellum fears of" white slavery" and the case of Sally Miller/Salome Mu¨ ller." Text and Performance Quarterly 23, no. 1 (2003): 55-86.

Herminghouse, Patricia. "The German Secrets of New Orleans." German Studies Review 27, no. 1 (2004): 1-16.

Petry, Alice Hall. "The Limits of Truth in Cable's" Salome Müller"." Papers on Language and Literature 27, no. 1 (1991): 20-31.

Wilson, Carol. "Sally Muller, the White Slave." Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association 40, no. 2 (1999): 133-153.

Wilson, Carol. "The two lives of Sally Miller: a case of mistaken racial identity in antebellum New Orleans." (2007).

Wilson, Carol, and Calvin D. Wilson. "White slavery: An American paradox." Slavery and Abolition 19, no. 1 (1998): 1-23.