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Celia A Slave
Title: Celia A Slave
Category: History
Details: Words: 1224 | Pages: 5.2 (approximately 235 words/page)
Celia A Slave
Brad Brink
Prof. Wheeler
History 221
November 20, 2000
Moral Dilemmas of Celia, A Slave
Melton McLaurin’s book Celia, A Slave is the account of the trial, conviction, and execution of a female slave for the murder of her master in 1855. The author uses evidence compiled through studying documents from Callaway County, Missouri and the surrounding area during the middle of the Nineteenth Century. Although much of what we can determine about this event is merely speculation, …showed first 75 words of 1224 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1224 total…what, sometimes it is impossible to separate politics from out personal lives. The effects of the political aspects of slavery reached into the courtroom and denied her the justice that the court system is there to provide, a fair trial. The story of Celia shows the immoral aspects of slavery and how it led those involved in the institution, and even some not involved to decisions that where even more wrong than the slavery itself.
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