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a Slave State of Missouri v. Celia: 1855

Suggestions For Further Reading



Brownmiller, Susan. Against Our Will. Men, women, and Rape. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1975.

Fox-Genovese, Elizabeth. Within the Plantation Household: Black and White Women of the Old South.Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 1988.

McLaurin, Melton A. Celia: A Slave: A true story of violence and retribution in antebellum Missouri.Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, 1991.

Sterling, Dorothy. We Are Your Sisters: Black Women in the Nineteenth Century. New York: W.W. Norton& Co., 1984.

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Law Library - American Law and Legal InformationNotable Trials and Court Cases - 1833 to 1882a Slave State of Missouri v. Celia: 1855 - Celia Speaks, The Trial Begins, On To The Missouri Supreme Court, Suggestions For Further Reading