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Privately that they should be released. President obama adds his voice to the al jazeera staff being freed. And food that will have you thinking twice before taking a bite. [ music ] welcome to the programme. We begin the newshour with a special coverage of the gaza. Palestinian and israeli negotiators failed to agree with a truce of talks in cairo. Israel has reported to offer on extension to the existing ceasefire by 72 hours. Hamas is warning that the demands to the end of the siege must be met. The people of gaza are going their best to take up the pieces, homes and families destroyed. 64 israelis havent killed, including three civilians and a thai national. Over 1800 palestinians have been killed most women and children, civilians. Over 200,000 are living in u. N. Shelters. Andrew simmonds is in northeastern gaza, joining me from there. A difficult time, andrew, for those trying to, as you say, pick up the pieces. How are they coping. Who have you been talking to. This whole crisi
In her court case. Is about an hour and 20 minutes. Today we will continue the discussion we were having, particularly the experiences of slave women. Look at thence to case of Harriet Jacobs, one of the best remembered of the slave narratives. Us to thatoduces dimension of slavery that is exemplified, and we might say central to the experience of slave women and that is Sexual Violence. We will come back to discuss jacobs in relation to todays case, celia. We also talked about wpa narratives and the extent to which some issues, including Sexual Violence violence generally, and Sexual Violence in particular was rather muted in the slave narratives. Toe we have the opportunity take another pass at this question, to try to see this dimension of slavery through the experience of celia. You have all begun to see in your readings for today, there are many ways in which the record and the evidence upon which we rely to discover, explore, and understands the case of celia is a challenging rec
Ill point out as an aside below the entry for george in the inventory are then the other two slaves in this household and they are children. Celias children. One, a girl named jane, who is 3 years old. And im sorry, a girl named viny, who is 3yearold. And the second a girl, 1 1 2 years old, named jane. Both here valued at 150 each and i can tell you that when george is sold when we account of record of georges sale alongside is the sale of celias two daughters out of the newsom household as well. So new evidence allows us to add new layers and think with important nuance about this case. One more i think important question. Slavery and the law of rape. Lets go back to the trial. Part of what you know is that at the end of this trial, the presiding trial judge will instruct the jurors in this case. What does it mean to instruct the jurors. Here jurors are not legal professionals, they dont have any special knowledge of the law, be it of rape, be it of murder, be it of selfdefense. And p
Selfdefense selfdefense. The argument is that celia while she killed newsom, did so defending herself against newsoms commission of a felony, the felony of rape or defilement in missouri. Here the statute that is key to determining whether or not celia was in fact in imminent fear of being raped. Lets read it together. Every person who shall take any woman flauflunlawfully and by force, menace or duress compel her to marry him or to marry any other person, or to be defiled, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by imprizsonment in the pen penitentiary for not less than five years. Any woman unlawfully against her will. How do you read this as applies to celia . That makes assumption that the woman in question has will in fact. I know that as a slave that they are no such will exists and i think thats why the court did not recognize herself defense claim. Good. So it is any woman against her will. I think one of the key questions here that the court must implicitly resolve for itse