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Celia (c. 1835 - December 21, 1855) was a slave found guilty of the first-degree murder of Robert Newsom, her master, in Callaway County, Missouri.Her defense team, led by John Jameson, argued an affirmative defense: Celia killed Robert Newsom by accident in self-defense to stop Newsom from raping her, which was a controversial argument at the time. [2]
State of Missouri v. Celia, a Slave was an 1855 murder trial held in the Circuit Court of Callaway County, Missouri, in which an enslaved woman named Celia was tried for the first-degree murder of her owner, Robert Newsom. Celia was convicted by a jury of twelve white men [1] and sentenced to death.
The status of three slaves who traveled from Kentucky to the free states of Indiana and Ohio depended on Kentucky slave law rather than Ohio law, which had abolished slavery. 1852: Lemmon v. New York: Superior Court of the City of New York: Granted freedom to slaves who were brought into New York by their Virginia slave owners, while in transit ...
William Augustus Hall (October 15, 1815 – December 15, 1888) was an American politician who served in the US House of Representatives.He was the son of John H. Hall, industrialist and inventor of the M1819 Hall rifle, the brother of Missouri Governor and Representative Willard Preble Hall and the father of Representative Uriel Sebree Hall and Medal of Honor recipient William Preble Hall.
18. Celia Cruz. The Cuban songstress is the undisputed Queen of Salsa! La Guarachera de Cuba was one of the most popular Latinx artists of the 20th century and was the first Latina to receive the ...
Celia (died 1855), a woman convicted ... George Lewis (1794–1811), also known as Slave George, was an enslaved man murdered in Kentucky on the night of December 15 ...
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The fugitive slave laws were laws passed by the United States Congress in 1793 and 1850 to provide for the return of slaves who escaped from one state into another state or territory. The idea of the fugitive slave law was derived from the Fugitive Slave Clause which is in the United States Constitution ( Article IV , Section 2, Paragraph 3).