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The document analyzes primary sources related to the Celia case trials in Missouri in 1855. Specifically, it examines a statement written by Celia, a slave, describing how her master Newsom sexually assaulted her and how she killed him by striking him with a stick. Celia wrote the statement in an attempt to plead for her freedom under a Missouri law banning the forcible taking of a woman. As a black slave, Celia faced bias in the court. However, her statement only presents the facts in a clear manner to sup

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samwel wekesa

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