you all have read milton mcmoran 's book and that is the popular ength treatment of celia's story, but i want to sketch out that narrative for the group as his of our discussion today. again, this comes as a fragmentary narrative, one driven by the court record, the legal artifact in the case. first, there is very little for us to say about celia's young life. we don't meet her in a formal sense in the historical record 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

you all have read milton mcmoran 's book and that is the popular ength treatment of celia's story, but i want to sketch out that narrative for the group as his of our discussion today. again, this comes as a fragmentary narrative, one driven by the court record, the legal artifact in the case. first, there is very little for us to say about celia's young life. we don't meet her in a formal sense in the historical rd

and you read some of his story 'sd milton mcmoran interpretation of george, but today we will come back to the evidence and i will ask you how you think we should understand the role of george in the story based upon the testimony we have. -- au are william powell local farmer. he is relating his confrontation with george, the day after newsom disappeared. i asked his negro boy george where he thought he was. that he did not believe it was worthwhile to hunt for him anywhere except close around the house. for he had reasons to believe he was not far off. i told him he had better go and show us where the old man was. he stated he believed the last walking yet done was along this half. that is the path between celia's cabin in the house. i believed that he had been -- in the-- or killed negro cabin. here we have powell. george is not given a statement at this point of the preceding. we hear his words filtered through powell's ideas, but we have the suggestion that what? that george has somehow, if not implicated celia, he has certainly implicated celia's cabin, right? demise,ite of newsom