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Celia A Slave
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Author : Melton A. McLaurin
language : en
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Release Date : 2021-12-15
Celia A Slave written by Melton A. McLaurin and has been published by University of Georgia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-12-15 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Celia A Slave
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Author : Barbara Seyda
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2016-08-23
Celia A Slave written by Barbara Seyda and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-23 with Drama categories.
The winner of the 2015 Yale Drama Series playwriting competition was selected by Nicholas Wright, former Associate Director of London’s Royal Court. Barbara Seyda’s stunningly theatrical Celia, a Slave is a vivid tableau of interviews with the dead that interweaves oral histories with official archival records. Powerful, poetic, and stylistically bold, this work foregrounds twenty-three diverse characters to recall the events that led to the hanging of nineteen-year-old Celia, an African American slave convicted in a Missouri court of murdering her master, the prosperous landowner Robert Newsom, in 1855. Excavating actual trial transcripts and court records, Seyda bears witness to racial and sexual violence in U.S. history, illuminating the brutal realities of female slave life in the pre–Civil War South while exploring the intersection of rape, morality, economics, and gender politics that continue to resonate today.
Celia A Slave
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Author : Melton A. McLaurin
language : en
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Release Date : 2011-03-15
Celia A Slave written by Melton A. McLaurin and has been published by University of Georgia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-03-15 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Illuminating the moral dilemmas that lie at the heart of a slaveholding society, this book tells the story of a young slave who was sexually exploited by her master and ultimately executed for his murder. Celia was only fourteen years old when she was acquired by John Newsom, an aging widower and one of the most prosperous and respected citizens of Callaway County, Missouri. The pattern of sexual abuse that would mark their entire relationship began almost immediately. After purchasing Celia in a neighboring county, Newsom raped her on the journey back to his farm. He then established her in a small cabin near his house and visited her regularly (most likely with the knowledge of the son and two daughters who lived with him). Over the next five years, Celia bore Newsom two children; meanwhile, she became involved with a slave named George and resolved at his insistence to end the relationship with her master. When Newsom refused, Celia one night struck him fatally with a club and disposed of his body in her fireplace. Her act quickly discovered, Celia was brought to trial. She received a surprisingly vigorous defense from her court-appointed attorneys, who built their case on a state law allowing women the use of deadly force to defend their honor. Nevertheless, the court upheld the tenets of a white social order that wielded almost total control over the lives of slaves. Celia was found guilty and hanged. Melton A. McLaurin uses Celia's story to reveal the tensions that strained the fabric of antebellum southern society. Celia's case demonstrates how one master's abuse of power over a single slave forced whites to make moral decisions about the nature of slavery. McLaurin focuses sharply on the role of gender, exploring the degree to which female slaves were sexually exploited, the conditions that often prevented white women from stopping such abuse, and the inability of male slaves to defend slave women. Setting the case in the context of the 1850s slavery debates, he also probes the manner in which the legal system was used to justify slavery. By granting slaves certain statutory rights (which were usually rendered meaningless by the customary prerogatives of masters), southerners could argue that they observed moral restraint in the operations of their peculiar institution. An important addition to our understanding of the pre-Civil War era, Celia, A Slave is also an intensely compelling narrative of one woman pushed beyond the limits of her endurance by a system that denied her humanity at the most basic level.
More Than Chattel
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Author : David Barry Gaspar
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 1996-04-22
More Than Chattel written by David Barry Gaspar and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-04-22 with History categories.
Essays exploring Black women’s experiences with slavery in the Americas. Gender was a decisive force in shaping slave society. Slave men’s experiences differed from those of slave women, who were exploited both in reproductive as well as productive capacities. The women did not figure prominently in revolts, because they engaged in less confrontational resistance, emphasizing creative struggle to survive dehumanization and abuse. The contributors are Hilary Beckles, Barbara Bush, Cheryl Ann Cody, David Barry Gaspar, David P. Geggus, Virginia Meacham Gould, Mary Karasch, Wilma King, Bernard Moitt, Celia E. Naylor-Ojurongbe, Robert A. Olwell, Claire Robertson, Robert W. Slenes, Susan M. Socolow, Richard H. Steckel, and Brenda E. Stevenson. “A much-needed volume on a neglected topic of great interest to scholars of women, slavery, and African American history. Its broad comparative framework makes it all the more important, for it offers the basis for evaluating similarities and contrasts in the role of gender in different slave societies. . . . [This] will be required reading for students all of the American South, women’s history, and African American studies.” —Drew Gilpin Faust, Annenberg Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania
Slavery And Freedom In Savannah
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Author : Leslie Maria Harris
language : en
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Release Date : 2014
Slavery And Freedom In Savannah written by Leslie Maria Harris and has been published by University of Georgia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with History categories.
A richly illustrated, accessibly written book with a variety of perspectives on slavery, emancipation, and black life in Savannah from the city's founding to the early twentieth century. Written by leading historians of Savannah, Georgia, and the South, it includes a mix of thematic essays focusing on individual people, events, and places.
Celia A Slave
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Author : Melton A. McLaurin
language : en
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Release Date : 2021-12-15
Celia A Slave written by Melton A. McLaurin and has been published by University of Georgia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-12-15 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Originally published in 1991, Celia, a Slave illuminates the moral dilemmas that lie at the heart of a slaveholding society by telling the story of a young slave who was sexually exploited by her enslaver and ultimately executed for his murder. Melton A. McLaurin uses Celia’s story to reveal the tensions that strained the fabric of antebellum southern society by focusing on the role of gender and the manner in which the legal system was used to justify slavery. An important addition to our understanding of the pre–Civil War era, Celia, a Slave is also an intensely compelling narrative of one woman pushed beyond the limits of her endurance by a system that denied her humanity at the most basic level.
African Cherokees In Indian Territory
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Author : Celia E. Naylor
language : en
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Release Date : 2008
African Cherokees In Indian Territory written by Celia E. Naylor and has been published by Univ of North Carolina Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Social Science categories.
Forcibly removed from their homes in the late 1830s, Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, and Chickasaw Indians brought their African-descended slaves with them along the Trail of Tears and resettled in Indian Territory, present-day Oklahoma. Celia E. Naylor vividly
Pirates
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Author : Celia Rees
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2010-05-03
Pirates written by Celia Rees and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-05-03 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
When two young women meet under extraordinary circumstances in the eighteenth-century West Indies, they are unified in their desire to escape their oppressive lives. The first is a slave, forced to work in a plantation mansion and subjected to terrible cruelty at the hands of the plantation manager. The second is a spirited and rebellious English girl, sent to the West Indies to marry well and combine the wealth of two respectable families. But fate ensures that one night the two young women have to save each other and run away to a life no less dangerous but certainly a lot more free. As pirates, they roam the seas, fight pitched battles against their foes and become embroiled in many a heart-quickening adventure. Written in brilliant and sparkling first-person narrative, this is a wonderful novel in which Celia Rees has brought the past vividly and intimately to life.
American Slavery As It Is
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1839
American Slavery As It Is written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1839 with categories.
Sexuality And Slavery
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Author : Daina Ramey Berry
language : en
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Release Date : 2018
Sexuality And Slavery written by Daina Ramey Berry and has been published by University of Georgia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Social Science categories.
"A Sarah Mills Hodge Fund publication"--Title page verso.