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History of slavery, and in particular, the experiences of enslaved women. We already had a chance to look at the case of Harriet Jacobs, one of the best remembered of the slave narratives. There, jacobs introduced us, if you will, to that 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 a little bit to talk about jacobs in comparison to our case today, that of celia. We also looked at the wpa narratives, and one of the things we noticed about those narratives was the extent to which some issues, including sexual violence, violence generally, and sexual violence, in particular, was rather muted in the slave narratives. And so here we have an with this case to take another pass at this question, to try to see this dimension of slavery through the experience of celia. So, why do i say try to see this dimension of slavery . As you have a ....
That is Sexual Violence. We will come back a little bit to talk about jacobs in comparison to our case today, that of celia. We also talked about wpa narratives, and one of the things we noticed about those narratives is the extent to which some issues, including Sexual Violence violence generally, and Sexual Violence, in particular was rather muted in the slave narratives. And so here, we have with the celia case the opportunity to take another pass at this question, to try to see this dimension of slavery through the experienceli so, why do i say try to see this dimension of slavery . As 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 understand the case of celia is a challenging record to make use of. So part ....
Slavery, and in particular, the experiences of enslaved women. Weve already had a chance to look at the case of Harriet Jacobs, one of the best remembered of the slave narratives. There, jacobs introduced us, if you will, to that 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 a little bit to talk about jacobs in comparison to our case today, that of celia. We also talked about wpa narratives, and one of the things we noticed about those their lives, as you will recall, is the extent to which some issues, including sexual violence, violence generally, but sexual violence, in particular, was rather muted in the slave narratives. And so here, we have with the we have an opportunity with the celia case the opportunity to take another pass at this question, to try to see this dimension of slavery through the experience of celia. So, why ....
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 ....
Until she is how old . Do you remember . Anybody . 14 years old, right . She is 14 years old when she first appears to us. She is, as we come to understand woman inng in slaved Central Missouri and she is purchased by robert newsom, a small farmer in the county of callaway, the town of fulton in missouri. He purchases celia, and almost from the very moment of that encounter, our story is framed because we learn celia is very soon sexually assaulted, some say even in the journey back to fulton, but certainly very quickly after they arrived at his farm. What is this place to which celia had come . We know that he is a recent widower. In his household are his. Hildren, who are now adults his daughters, as well as a grandson. Newsom is a small farmer. This is not a plantation setting. This is not a large scale enterprise. At most in 1850, he owned five enslaved people in addition to celia. By 1860, he will own just celia and one oth ....