The 1855 Murder Case of Missouri Versus Celia, an Enslaved Woman: An Exercise in Historical Imagination

by Alexis Brooks De Vita

Reconstructs the conviction of a slave girl found guilty of beating and burning to death her owner, the man who fathered her three children. This book pieces together the most probable sequence of events that erupted in the brutal murder of Robert Newsom and the mistrial that condemned Celia to death by hanging.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 077343528X
• ISBN13: 9780773435285
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
• Length: 324 Pages