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....

[robowombat]

Shhh...not supposed to say that about them poo, poo turd world people.

[Baldwin77]

I’m so glad that my ancestors fought in the civil war to free enslaved people like Celia. They’re part of American History too.

Show me a country without some historical, shameful days. There aren’t any.

[If You Want It Fixed - Fix It]

Tragic. But she did good. Those kin deserved a chopped up father/grandfather.

[SauronOfMordor]

After the Civil War, lots of freed slaves died of starvation and disease, having no experience in how to live without supervision.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/jun/16/slavery-starvation-civil-war

[the OlLine Rebel]

Uh oh, don’t deal in reality.

People really need to be more open-minded about the entire issue. Too many are just lock-step ones and zeroes.

[Baldwin77]

“Live free or die”

[SauronOfMordor]

To be sure. That’s my motto too.

The reality, though, up until the last century or so, has been:

For most men: work hard or starve.

For most women: work hard, starve, or find a guy willing to feed you in exchange for sex.

[GOPJ]

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.

There's a reason the New York Times and Washington Post Bimbos and pretentious 'men' don't trace back a few of those children and write up the truth. (of course if they did those nice little news packets - that have taken the place of thoughtful journalists) will stop showing up. If you think Twitter was owned by 'intelligence' you ain't seen nothing yet. (yes, there's a reason the truth about the children isn't covered by the fools in the MSM)

[Albion Wilde]

As the editorial intimates, regardless of what actually happened in Owensboro, the [media's lies about a] circus atmosphere quickly brought the matter of public hangings into question.

So it sounds like the bleeding-heart virtue signallers of the day blew up the story in the press with the agenda of ending public hangings, just like the candle-lighters and Kumbaya singers of today do outside a prison when there is to be an execution of a heinous criminal monster.

[Tacrolimus1mg]

She left it at, verbatim, “Agree the situation is difficult.” The conversation was had by text, and I said that nobody has come up with an answer regarding what to do with all of these kids.