The 1855 murder case of Missouri versus Celia, an enslaved woman : an exercise in historical imagination / Alexis Brooks de Vita.

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Brooks De Vita, Alexis

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computer

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online resource

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9780773411203
0773411208

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: 1855 murder case of Missouri versus Celia, an enslaved woman.DDC classification:

808.83/81 22

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PS3602.R644255 A613 2010eb

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Contents:

Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Endorsements Page; Table of Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Prologue: All Alone, Fulton, Missouri, 1855; Chapter One: Rain, Missouri, April, 1850; Chapter Two: Red Ribbon Round Her Neck; Chapter Three: Strange and Blessed Night; Chapter Four: Along the Shattered Surface; Chapter Five: Shame; Chapter Six: You Give Things Up; Chapter Seven: Walk it Again; Chapter Eight: Rocking Like You a Baby; Chapter Nine: The Cold and the Dark; Chapter Ten: The Water and the Woods; Chapter Eleven: Rage; Chapter Twelve: Cudgel; Chapter Thirteen: Blaze.

Chapter Fourteen: TrappedEpilogue: Flight; Afterword; Bibliography.

Summary: This book reconstructs the conviction of a slave girl found guilty of beating and burning to death her owner, the man who fathered her three children. The political climate of pre-Civil War Missouri did not favor justice for an enslaved girl who confessed to murdering her owner, even though those acquainted with the case believed she could not have committed the deed.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-324).

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Chapter Fourteen: TrappedEpilogue: Flight; Afterword; Bibliography.

This book reconstructs the conviction of a slave girl found guilty of beating and burning to death her owner, the man who fathered her three children. The political climate of pre-Civil War Missouri did not favor justice for an enslaved girl who confessed to murdering her owner, even though those acquainted with the case believed she could not have committed the deed.

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