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Title : Celia, A Slave
ISBN : 0380803364
Release Date : 1999-02-01
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Celia a Slave Summary from LitCharts The creators of In the year 1850 a prosperous Missouri farmer named Robert Newsom buys a teenaged slave named Celia Very little is known about Celia’s life before she lived on Newsom’s property but it’s known that when Newsom bought her she was fourteen years old Robert Newsom is in many ways typical of his Missouri community Celia A Slave Melton A Mclaurin 9780380803361 Amazon Based on court records correspondences and newspaper accounts past and present Celia A Slave is a powerful masterwork of passion and scholarshipa stunning literary achievement that brilliantly illuminates one of the most extraordinary events in the long dark history of slavery in America The Amazon Book Review Celia A Slave by Melton A McLaurin Based on court records correspondences and newspaper accounts past and present Celia A Slave is a powerful masterwork of passion and scholarshipa stunning literary achievement that brilliantly illuminates one of the most extraordinary events in the long dark history of slavery in Celia A Slave Summary and Study Guide SuperSummary Celia A Slave is Melton A McLaurin’s booklength analysis of the trial and execution of Celia a slave in Callaway County Missouri who kills her master and burns his body in her fireplace Celia a Slave legal definition of Celia a Slave Celia a Slave Celias fate was sealed by the same court that had earlier exhibited its proslavery leanings in the famous Dred Scott decision in which a majority of the court ruled that a slave remained a slave—even if he traveled and lived in free territory Dred Scott v Sandford 60 19 How 393 15 L Ed 691 Celia A Slave Famous Trials For nineteenyearold Celia a slave on a Missouri farm five years of being repeatedly raped by her middleaged owner was enough On the night of June 23 1855 she would later tell a reporter the Devil got into me and Celia fatally clubbed her master as he approached her in her cabin Celia A Slave Trial 1855 For nineteenyearold Celia a slave on a Missouri farm five years of being repeatedly raped by her middleaged owner was enough On the night of June 23 1855 she would later tell a reporter the Devil got into me and Celia fatally clubbed her master as he approached her in her cabin State of Missouri v Celia a Slave Wikipedia Celia a Slave was an 1855 murder trial held in the Circuit Court of Callaway County Missouri in which an enslaved woman named Celia was tried for the firstdegree murder of her owner Robert Newsom Celia was convicted by a jury of twelve white men and sentenced to death Celia a Slave Chapter 1 Beginnings Summary Analysis The final resident of the Newsom house is a fourteenyearold slave named Celia Little is known about Celia’s life before she begins living at the Newsom house She appears to have received training as a cook but it’s unclear where she lived or who owned her before Robert Celia is pretty clearly the main character in this book State of Missouri v Celia a Slave Could she claim self What followed was her arrest and a groundbreaking legal case known as the State of Missouri vs Celia a Slave — a dispute that played out long before MeToo hashtags on Twitter and the