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The 1855 murder case of Missouri versus Celia, an enslaved woman : an exercise in historical imagination /

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 ac...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Brooks De Vita, Alexis
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lewiston, N.Y. : Edwin Mellen Press, ©2010.
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