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A 3 page review of the Book by Melton McLaurin. This paper examines the social hierarchy which is unveiled by this book. The author contends the issues explored by McLaurin are not limited to the relationship between the races. Indeed, these issues permeate both the South and the North and involve not just the clearly defined line between the slave and the master, the affluent and the destitute, but also the clearly defined line between the man and the woman of this time period. No additional sources are listed.
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Set in antebellum Missouri, "Celia, a Slave: A True Story" is an expose on the horrors of slavery. Author Melton McLaurin relates the experiences of a slave girl,
Celia. Fourteen year old Celia was not only bound to her master through the physical work which she was expected to become but intimately. Sexually exploited and coerced
emotionally, Celia even bore her white master two children. At the age of nineteen, however, Celia fell in love with a fellow slave and became determined to end the
unwelcome relationship. Rather than complying with her wishes, Celias master became even more violent and raped her. Celia reacted by killing the man and burning his body in
her fireplace as a ready means of disposing it. Celias actions, of course, were simply intolerable in the antebellum south. This was a region were there was a
very carefully constructed balance between white and black and between privileged and subjugated. Celia and her lover George, of course, were members of the latter component of society while
her master, John Newsome, was a member of the former. Consequently, Celia was tried for murder, convicted, and hung. The issues raised in "Celia, a Slave: A
True Story", however, were not confined to the South alone, nor were they limited to the relationship between the races. Indeed, these issues permeated both the South and the
North and involved not just the clearly defined line between the slave and the master, the affluent and the destitute, but also the clearly defined line between the man and
the woman of this time period. "Celia, a Slave: A True Story" is thus a book which offers a unique insight into
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