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Celia : A Slave by Melton A. McLaurin (1991, Hardcover) BRAND NEW
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
ISBN-10
0820313521
ISBN-13
9780820313528
eBay Product ID (ePID)
125103
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
160 Pages
Publication Name
Celia : a Slave
Language
English
Subject
Slavery, Women, United States / 19th Century
Publication Year
1991
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
11.7 Oz
Item Length
8.7 in
Item Width
5.7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
90-023045
Dewey Edition
20
Reviews
McLaurin's novelistic approach to history results in an information-packed, thought-provoking piece of theater. McLaurin's meticulous research brings forward layers of information that set the scene and reconstruct the details of an "insignificant" life. -- Booklist, A gifted historian . . . McLaurin is both scrupulous and imaginative in his interpretation of the evidence. . . . Without ever moralizing, McLaurin conveys the raw horror and 'psychic costs' of a legal and thoroughly American institution that condoned the rape, sexual abuse, and hanging of a girl known only as Celia. --David Brion Davis "New York Review of Books", Informed by theory, the book is not thesis-ridden and it may be used easily by scholars of any perspective. -- Choice, A straightforward and compelling account of one small historical incident that helps to illustrate the complex issues facing pre-Civil War America. -- Kirkus Reviews, A remarkable account . . . McLaurin succeeds admirably in using Celia's story to raise larger issues about the meaning of American slavery. . . . That Celia and her shocking tale can be recovered at all is testimony to McLaurin's skill and assiduity. --Drew Gilpin Faust " New York Times Book Review ", A remarkable biography . . . McLaurin has masterfully researched judicial, historical, and contemporary materials in preparing this compelling and thoughtful narrative. Enhanced by its sensitivity and brevity, this book is a provocative starting point for discussion of its many ethical, legal, historical, and social issues. It should be required reading for high school students. -- School Library Journal, Provides a new chapter in the growing literature on slave women . . . McLaurin may not have believed that Celia acted entirely independently; he has nonetheless added her name to the saga of black women who 'struck a blow' for freedom. -- Journal of American History, McLaurin has not only told a compelling story, but also crafted a work that teaches the art of history by richly illuminating a particular time, place, and moral climate. -- Journal of Southern History, McLaurin has not only told a compelling story, but also crafted a work that teaches the art of history by richly illuminating a particular time, place, and moral climate.
Dewey Decimal
345.73
Synopsis
Melton A. McLaurin uses Celia's story to reveal the tensions that strained the fabric of antebellum southern society. Celia's case demonstrates how one master's abuse of power over a single slave forced whites to make moral decisions about the nature of slavery., Originally published in 1991, Celia, a Slave illuminates the moral dilemmas that lie at the heart of a slaveholding society by telling the story of a young slave who was sexually exploited by her enslaver and ultimately executed for his murder. Melton A. McLaurin uses Celia's story to reveal the tensions that strained the fabric of antebellum southern society by focusing on the role of gender and the manner in which the legal system was used to justify slavery. An important addition to our understanding of the pre-Civil War era, Celia, a Slave is also an intensely compelling narrative of one woman pushed beyond the limits of her endurance by a system that denied her humanity at the most basic level. The 30th anniversary edition includes a new foreword from Daina Ramey Berry and Jennifer L. Morgan. As these two prominent scholars reflect in that foreword, the scholarship on enslaved women has grown exponentially since Celia was first published. In addition to detailing the "critical mass of gender and slavery scholarship" in a state-of-the-field essay, Berry and Morgan offer their thoughts on how scholars and students might approach Celia's story today in light of three decades of historiography. "Placing Celia in the context of other enslaved women," they conclude, "allows her story to reveal more than it did in 1991."
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