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Celia, A Slave Melton A. Mclaurin
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

The jury that convicted Celia of murder accepted her confession as fact, but some elements of her tale do not ring true. To the immediate south of the Smithsonian grounds lay two of the most notorious 'slave pens' in the region, where persons of color, many of them kidnapped or arrested on the flimsiest of pretexts, were held under horrific conditions pending their sale to points south.3 One of these, the Williams House or "Yellow House" was . Of course, I had to read it, too. In 1855, Celia, a nineteen-year-old Missouri slave, was convicted of murder and sentenced to death for killing her sixty-year-old master. , a young adult novel by Celia Rees. Celia, listed simply as "old' in 1848, might be the same person in the 1799 inventory as Cecelia, age fourteen, unmarried, in the River Farm. I also enjoy the opportunity to leave feedback, because I feel that it. I was very satisfied with the level of customer service that I recieved from Amazon.com. Is the story of Nancy Kington, the impetuous daughter of a wealthy 18th century sugar merchant and slave trader. Illuminating the moral dilemmas that lie at the heart of a slaveholding society, this book tells the story of a young slave who was sexually exploited by her master and ultimately executed for his murder. CELIA by Richard Nyeila, inspired by Melton A.