Celia, a slave
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Word Count
23,500 words, Guess
Page Count
94 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-100300197063
- ISBN-139780300197068
- AmazonB01J26RRI0
- Library of Congress Control Number2016932439
- OCLC Control Number944209977
and 3 more
- Better World Books9780300197068
- Better World BooksP8-CWN-412
- Open LibraryOL27220721M
Classifications
- DDC812/.6
- LCCPS3619.E995 C45 2016
- LCCPS3619
Description
"Barbara Seyda's stunningly theatrical Celia, a Slave is a vivid tableau of interviews with the dead that interweaves oral histories with official archival records. Powerful, poetic, and stylistically bold, this work foregrounds twenty-three diverse characters to recall the events that led to the hanging of nineteen-year-old Celia, an African American slave convicted in a Missouri court of murdering her master, the prosperous landowner Robert Newsom, in 1855. Excavating actual trial transcripts and court records, Seyda bears witness to racial and sexual violence in U.S. history, illuminating the brutal realities of female slave life in the pre-Civil War South while exploring the intersection of rape, morality, economics, and gender politics that continue to resonate today"--Back cover.
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Series Statement
- The Yale drama series
- Yale drama series
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