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| #12546 in Books | 1999-02-01 | 1999-02-01 | | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 6.75 x.48 x4.19l,.21 | Binding: Mass Market Paperback | 192 pages||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| A Musr Read|By KIP|Excellent book on a rare case of an enslaved African woman brought to trial for the murder of her master who started to sexually abuse her on the way home from the auction. She was only fourteen. The specifics of the trial are placed in a historical context: 1850's. This non-fiction is a tragic story that accentuates the double jeopardy of enslaved African|From Publishers Weekly|This moving and masterfully told true story concerns the abuse and execution of a female black slave in antebellum Missouri. |Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.|From School Library Journal|
In 1850, fourteen-year-old Celia became the property of Robert Newsom, a prosperous and respected Missouri farmer. For the next five years, she was cruelly and repeatedly molested by her abusive master--and bore him two children in the process. But in 1855, driven to the limits of her endurance, Celia fought back. And at the tender age of eighteen, the desperate and frightened young black woman found herself on trial for Newsom's murder--the defendant in a landmark co...
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