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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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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a 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. 
505 8 |a Chapter Fourteen: TrappedEpilogue: Flight; Afterword; Bibliography. 
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