Celia, a slave
Subtitle: a true story of violence and retribution in antebellum Missouri
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 1991-11-30
Place of publication: Athens, Georgia, USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780820313528
Description: This play is based on the trial transcript and court records from The State of Missouri vs. Celia, a Slave #4496, Callaway County Court, Fulton Township, Missouri, 1855; the trial of eighteen-year-old slave, Celia, for the murder of her sexually abusive master Robert Newsom. The play is a tableau of interviews with the dead.