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For nineteen-year-old Celia, a
slave on a Missouri farm, five years of being repeatedly raped by her
middle-aged owner was enough. On the night of June 23, 1855, she
would later tell a reporter, "the Devil got into me" and Celia fatally
clubbed her master as he approached her in her cabin. The murder
trial of the slave Celia, coming at a time when the controversy over
the issue of slavery reached new heights, raised fundamental questions
about the rights of slaves to fight back against the worst of slavery's
abuses.... [CONTINUED]
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