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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Brooks De Vita, Alexis
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lewiston, N.Y. : Edwin Mellen Press, ©2010.
Temas:
Enslaved women > Missouri > Fiction.
Slaveholders > Crimes against > Fiction.
Femmes esclaves > Missouri > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Propriétaires d'esclaves > Crimes contre > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
FICTION > General.
Enslaved women
Missouri > History > 19th century > Fiction.
Missouri
Historical fiction
Fiction
Legal stories.
Historical fiction.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.
  • Chapter Fourteen: TrappedEpilogue: Flight; Afterword; Bibliography.

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