Celia File No. 4496 Records of Callaway Circuit Court
from the
proceedings in
the matter of Index to Records of Callaway Circuit Court
proceedings in
the matter of Internet Resources Famous Trials: Celia, A Slave Trial (under
construction) Great American Trials, Vol. I Describes the events leading up to the crime for which Celia was charged, the trial, appeal and execution. http://law.jrank.org/pages/2539/State-Missouri-v-Celia-Slave-1855.html A PBS
publication that identifies the
parties, the claims, summarizes witness testimony, jury instructions
and
verdict, and text of governing http://www.pbs.org/wnet/slavery/experience/legal/feature2.html “Hanging a
Negress,” The Slavery in
Missouri and Little Dixie (series of maps showing extent of slave
ownership by county) Books Diane Mutti Burke, On Slavery's Border: Missouri's
Small-Slaveholding Households, 1815-1865 (Univ. of Georgia
Press, 2010). Melton A.
McLaurin, Celia, a Slave: A True Story
(N.Y.: HarperCollins Publishers, 1999). Harriet C.
Frazier, Slavery and Crime in |