1855: The slave Celia, who had no right to resist

ExecutedToday.com ^ | December 21, 2008 | Caitlin Hopkins

[CheshireTheCat]

In 1850, 60-year-old Robert Newsom, a prosperous farmer, traveled forty miles from his home in Callaway County, Missouri to neighboring Audrain County to buy a slave. Newsom was the head of a large and complex household that included several of his grown children, grandchildren, and five enslaved boys and men. His wife had died a few years earlier, a consideration that may have influenced his decision to purchase a female slave, a fourteen-year-old girl named Celia.

From the first day, Newsom treated Celia as his concubine. Testimony given before the Missouri Supreme Court in 1855 indicates that Newsom raped Celia for the first time on the journey home from the slave market. He installed her in a small cabin behind his house, where he continued to rape her on a regular basis over the next five years. During that time, she gave birth to two children.

In the spring of 1855, Celia began a relationship with George, another slave on the farm, and soon discovered that she was pregnant again. At George’s urging, Celia approached Newsom’s daughters and pled with them to protect her from their father during her pregnancy. The oldest daughter, Mary, later testified that Celia had threatened to hurt Newsom if he came to her cabin again, but there is no evidence that either she or her sister intervened....

[BenLurkin]

bttt

[PGR88]

PBS will love this story

[Theophilus]

Psalm 94:1
O Lord God, to whom vengeance belongeth; O God, to whom vengeance belongeth, shew thyself

[GOPJ]

Real live migrant children - younger than 14 - are being trafficed across the border to be raped by white liberal ‘elite’ men in kiddie whore houses.

We can’t go back into the past and protect a 14 year old slave, but we damn sure should be protecting children the cartels are bringing with their drugs and death...

[AnotherUnixGeek]

When Newsom attacked her that night, Celia retrieved her weapon and beat him to death with it. She then dismembered the body and burned it to ashes in her fireplace.

I wish the story had ended there. I love happy endings.

[GOPJ]

Real live migrant children - younger than 14 - are being trafficked across the border to be raped by white liberal ‘elite’ men in kiddie whore houses.

We can’t go back into the past and protect a 14 year old slave, but we damn sure should be protecting children the cartels are bringing with their drugs and death...

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Amen and Amen.

Very appropriate.

[RedMonqey]

It would take a huge amount of wood to render the bones of an adult man to ashes.
She had to have the help if George to even come close to doing that. I suspect George took the larger bones into a pit or large body of water to dispose of the remains.

[heartwood]

I don’t know who the johns are for the trafficked girls. I assumed most of them were Mexican.and Central American men, since there are so many single male illegal workers and immigrants.

[Persevero]

I am glad her memory lives on. Poor soul.

[Theophilus]

Amen

[fidelis]

I don’t know who the johns are for the trafficked girls. I assumed most of them were Mexican.and Central American men, since there are so many single male illegal workers and immigrants.

Not all human trafficking is for forced marriage or as sex slaves. A great percentage of it is forced labor in domestic, industrial, and agricultural settings.

[Organic Panic]

The Mexican and Central American girls in my area (almost always illegal) are pregnant around 14 years old.

[Ex gun maker.]

You would be correct.
I recall a thread here a few years ago on the prostitution operation being carried on in the bushes near the river in, San Diego?
Might have been LA county?
In any case yes, the Mex. prey on their own with near impunity.

[Bruce Campbells Chin]

A horrible, evil man who got exactly what he deserved. He is likely burning still.

Trying to put yourself into this poor woman's position is horrifying. This guy rapes you for years, and then you get hung for killing him. I wonder what was going through her mind when she was up on that scaffold in her final moments. Hopefully some comfort from prayer.

[Tacrolimus1mg]

I brought this up to a left-leaning Italian woman I know, who came here as a girl in the fifties or sixties. She wants open borders and of course thought Trump’s policies were, “cruel”, but what are we supposed to do with these kids? We don’t know who they’re crossing with, if the people they’re heading to are family, and nobody is vetting anyone, plus tons of girls and women are being raped on the journey over.

I’d rather deport the kids back to their parents in a sh¡thole country than place them with unknown adults who will do God knows what with them or to them.

[robowombat]

So what was this woman’s answer? My experience is either denial, or in a minority of cases, honest acceptance and straight up support elimination all national borders as well as stating ‘we are rich, it is our sacred obligation to our poor third world brothers to accept them, care for them, house them and feed them until they are poor no more.

[SauronOfMordor]

The oldest daughter, Mary, later testified that Celia had threatened to hurt Newsom if he came to her cabin again

A smarter man would have accepted Celia's feelings, dumped her to be a field worker somewhere else, and found a replacement who might prefer keeping him happy over working the fields in the hot sun.

[SauronOfMordor]

as well as stating ‘we are rich, it is our sacred obligation to our poor third world brothers to accept them, care for them, house them and feed them until they are poor no more

We do not have the ability to feed all the poor of the world, especially the low-IQ poor who will be unable to learn the skills necessary to become middle class.