along the path leading to the stable on the newsome farm. ere is george, the enslaved man owned by newsome. george relates -- we'll come back to his testimony. but relates that perhaps they want to search in the vicinity of celia's cabin. celia herself, as we know progressively tells a story.o she denies whereabouts of what might happened to him. she begins to tell a story. we understand in a sense why that might have been. the consequences for her act are grave, as we know. and she begins to tell a story first about having newsome having put his head through the window. having struck him and his disappearing into the night. but eventually it seems particularly under duress, that is under the threat that in fact, she may be separated from her children. celia reveals to these neighbors, local farmers who have come to investigate the whereabouts of newsome. she reveals to them out of the earshot of the newsome children she reveals she in fact, struck newsome dead and disposed of his body in the fireplace. we can follow the story then as it make

the informal, but important interrogation of people on the farm, one of whom is newsom's grandson, who relates he helped celia distribute the ashes of her fire on the path leading to the stable on the farm, and george, the enslaved man owned by newsom. george relates -- we will come back to his testimony -- relates that perhaps they want to search in the vicinity of celia's cabin. celia herself, as we know, progressively tells a story. initially she denies any understanding of newsom's whereabouts, what might have happened to him. she then begins to piecemeal tell a story. the consequences of her act are grave, as we know. she begins to tell a story, first about newsom having put his head through the window and having struck him, his disappearing into the night, but eventually it seems, particularly under duress, under the threat that in fact she may be separated from her children, celia reveals to these neighbors, local farmers that have come to investigate the whereabouts of newsom, she reveals to them out of earshot of the newsom children, she reveals she struck him dead and dispose

has helped celia distribute the ashes from her fire along the path leading to the stable on the newsom farm george, the enslaved man, owned by newsom. george relates -- we'll come back to his testimony, but relates that perhaps they want to search in the vicinity of celia's cabin. celia herself has we know progressively tells a story. initially she denies any understanding of what newsom's whereabouts, what might have happened to him. she then begins to piecemeal tell a story and we understand in a sense why that might have been. the consequences for her act are grave, as we know. and she begins to tell a story first about having newsom having put his head through the window and having struck him and his disappearing into the night, but eventually, it seems, particularly under duress, that is under the threat that in fact she may be separated from her children celia reveals to these neighbors, local farmers who have come to investigate the whereabouts of newsom, she reveals to them out of the earshot of the newsom children, she reveals that she in fact struck newsom dead and then disposed o

we went to the site of the newsom farm. here's where i thinkchives. we went to the site of the newsom farm. here's where i think as much as i wanted to end by telling you the historians are really the bastions of evidence and social science, that we won't get caught up in romance or memory or myth or fiction when it comes to celia, i'll leave you just to contemplate this scene which is our team out on the -- what is now federal land in fulton, the site where the newsom family and the newsom farm stood, the site of this dramatic moment in the life of celia. all that's left are somer foundation stones and old trees and open fields. but here historians, too, wanting in some sense to walk that walk the 60 paces from the house to the cabin to in some sense try and inhabit celia's world to try and be closer in some sense to her and to her experience. to say there wasn't much evidence here, it was extraordinarily powerful to walk on an afternoon the walk celia had walked those many years ago. so we'll stop here. when i see you nex

we went to the site of the newsom farm. here's where i thinkchives. we went to the site of the newsom farm. here's where i think as much as i wanted to end by telling you the historians are really the bastions of evidence and social science, that we won't get caught up in romance or memory or myth or fiction when it comes to celia, i'll leave you just to contemplate this scene which is our team out on the -- what is now federal land in fulton, the site where the newsom family and the newsom farm stood, the site of this dramatic moment in the life of celia. all that's left are somer foundation stones and old trees and open fields. but here historians, too, wanting in some sense to walk that walk the 60 paces from the house to the cabin to in some sense try and inhabit celia's world to try and be closer in some sense to her and to her experience. to say there wasn't much evidence here, it was extraordinarily powerful to walk on an afternoon the walk celia had walked those many years ago. so we'll stop here. when i see you nex