| Description |
1 online resource (v, 324 pages) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-324). |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Contents |
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. |
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Chapter Fourteen: TrappedEpilogue: Flight; Afterword; Bibliography. |
| Summary |
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 acquainted with the case believed she could not have committed the deed. |
| Local Subject |
Enslavers -- Crimes against -- Fiction.
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| Subject |
Enslaved women -- Missouri -- Fiction.
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Slaveholders -- Crimes against -- Fiction.
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Missouri -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.
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FICTION -- General.
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| Genre/Form |
Legal stories.
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Historical fiction.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Brooks De Vita, Alexis. 1855 murder case of Missouri versus Celia, an enslaved woman. Lewiston, N.Y. : Edwin Mellen Press, ©2010 9780773435285 (DLC) 2009047473 (OCoLC)462893762 |
| ISBN |
9780773411203 (electronic bk.) |
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0773411208 (electronic bk.) |
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