The Lost German Slave Girl by John Bailey

Author:John Bailey
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Grove Atlantic
Published: 2003-10-22T16:00:00+00:00

Somewhat shaken after watching Grymes maul his first witness, Upton next called Madame Hemm. She was a middle-aged German woman of dour respectability, whom he felt sure would have no difficulty in remembering where she lived. Nor was there any possibility that she would have spent her time visiting elderly slave women.

Madame Hemm went through the story of how she had accompanied her parents from Württemberg to Holland, and how, once they had arrived in Amsterdam, her father had used the last of their savings to pay for the family’s passage to Philadelphia. Later they heard that the man who had taken their money had become bankrupt. They had been cheated and they had nowhere to go. They had spent five months in Helder and it was there that she had met Salomé Müller. She guessed that Salomé’s age was then three or four. Eventually the Dutch government made them return to Amsterdam, where they waited until they came to America. Many, many of them had died.

And that child you saw in Holland, do you see her now in the court? asked Upton.

Oh, yes, said Madame Hemm in a clear voice, pointing to Sally Miller. I recognized her as belonging to the same family. She is the person I saw in Amsterdam.

How did you recognize her as the same person? he asked.

There was the family likeness in her face, which I saw as soon as she came in the door.

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