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...
Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Lewiston, N.Y. :
Edwin Mellen Press,
©2010.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |