Celia

Melton A. McLaurin wrote Celia, A Slave which tells the story of Callaway County, Missouri in a time that the question of whether to continue slavery was on the forefront of everyone’s mind. Missouri happened to be in the heat of the slavery debate before and during the main events of the novel because of the Missouri Compromise and the large amount of people that took the journey west to start fresh in the new state. The book begins by describing Robert Newsom, his family, his steady accumulation

The trial of Celia, a slave, is a murder case arising out of Calloway County, Missouri wherein Celia (the defendant) 19 years of age, killed Robert Newsom her (slave master). Celia was later charged with first degree murder and was sentenced to be hung by William Hall (the judge) for her allegedly criminal intent actions. Upon reading several different articles and a book of this case, I came across every iota I needed to briefly summarize the facts that which led me to believe that Celia was rightly

Celia, a Slave We have been reading a novel called Celia, A Slave. Celia, A Slave was written by a man named Melton A. McLaurin. The book was published in 1991 by the University of Georgia Press. This book that I have consists of one hundred and fourth three pages. In the novel Celia, A Slave, Melton A. McLaurin composes, in great detail, the tragic and true story of a slave named Celia who killed her master and then disposed of him by burning his body in her cabin on June 23, 1855. This was said

Injustice The book “Celia A Slave” by Melton A. McLaurin is based on the true accounts about a female slave named Celia who was tried in Missouri for the murder of her master Robert Newsom and was ultimately found guilty and sentenced to death in 1855. I believe Celia faced adversity through her legal battle because of other influences that ultimately dictated the outcome of a guilty verdict from the jury. Evidently Celia’s Jury took place in the Antebellum period during the time when tensions were

to do. Explored in the following books: Celia a Slave, The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, and The American Promise Volume 1, male and female slaves were similar yet had different experiences. Plantation owners purchased them for different reasons, forced them to complete different tasks, made them suffer similar punishments, and whites considered slaves as the inferior race. Robert Newsom’s wife died in 1849 and a year later, he purchased Celia. Citizens believed she would aid in the

Hist 1301 – 2A1 Renee Celeste 11/29/2017 Celia, a Slave: McLaurin’s Insight Every man, woman, and child that is born unto this earth is given one thing; free will. Or at least in theory. That is not to say that in every society, there are consequences for actions or that everyone is to be allowed to run rampant doing what they want. But most restrictions today, at least legally, are enforced so as to not infringe on someone else’s right to freedom. In Celia, a Slave, Melton A. McLaurin’s interpretation

In the story Celia, A Slave by Melton A. McLaurin, readers receive a bottom-up approach: scholarship that attempts to explain the perspective of ordinary people, as opposed to elites or leaders. In fact, McLaurin is quite commendable to do so because students are usually 1 taught a top-down approach on a daily basis in any history class. Slaves, especially those who were female, are virtually invisible to all historians. Few historians see female slaves as an important role in society; simply because

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white men who lived in their households or nearby. In the book Celia, A Slave by Melton McLaurin, to prevent the tragedy of Robert Newsom's murder and the events that followed, ultimately Celia, Virginia, and Mary could not have done anything differently. Throughout the book Celia, A Slave there are many reasons why these women could not have done anything differently to prevent Robert Newsom's murder. One of the major reasons Celia murdered Robert Newsom was because he considered her his property

the male slaves because of their sexuality. Slave women’s sexuality was raped and abused by their owners just because women can reproduce children and help the slave population rise in America. Celia, A Slave by Melton McLaurin is a true story about a young black slave who got abused by her Robert Newsom. Celia ended up doing something that no black female slave should be doing to their owner back in 1850, but having no platform to stand on or any right of having the freedom of speech, she had to stop