Celia: A Slave

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…her as not guilty due to protecting her life failed, and Celia was hanged. McLaurin succeeds in using Celia's story to raise larger issues about the meaning of American slavery for both blacks and whites, for both women and men. Celia: A Slave forces us to acknowledge the extremes to which slavery drove its victims, and how it confused meanings of crime, guilt and innocence and how terrible it was to be a female slave.