{"id":38755,"date":"2014-12-08T21:16:19","date_gmt":"2014-12-08T21:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=38755"},"modified":"2014-12-09T01:51:26","modified_gmt":"2014-12-09T01:51:26","slug":"female-slaves-and-the-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=38755","title":{"rendered":"Female Slaves and the Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?321554-1\/female-slaves-law\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Female Slaves and the Law<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.c-span.org\" target=\"_blank\">C-SPAN: Created by Cable<\/a><br \/>\nLectures in History<br \/>\n2014-10-21<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lsa.umich.edu\/history\/people\/faculty\/ci.jonesmarthas_ci.detail\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Martha S. Jones<\/strong><\/a>, Arthur F Thurnau Professor, Associate Professor of History and Afroamerican and African Studies<br \/>\n<em>University of Michigan<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Professor Martha Jones talked about the mid-19th century court case of Celia, a female slave who killed her master after repeated sexual assaults.\u2002Topics included what options Celia may have had, and the involvement of her fellow slaves and her master\u2019s white neighbors in her court case.<\/p>\n<p>View the lecture <a href=\"http:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?321554-1\/female-slaves-law\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> (01:21:40). See also, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/law2.umkc.edu\/faculty\/projects\/ftrials\/celia\/celiaaccount.html\" target=\"_blank\">Celia, A Slave, Trial (1855): An Account<\/a>\u201d by <a href=\"http:\/\/law2.umkc.edu\/faculty\/projects\/ftrials\/linder.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Douglas O. Linder<\/a> (2011).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Female Slaves and the Law C-SPAN: Created by Cable Lectures in History 2014-10-21 Martha S. Jones, Arthur F Thurnau Professor, Associate Professor of History and Afroamerican and African Studies University of Michigan Professor Martha Jones talked about the mid-19th century court case of Celia, a female slave who killed her master after repeated sexual assaults.\u2002Topics [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[459,1467,6940,20,842,25],"tags":[4759,17140,16971,773],"class_list":["post-38755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-law","category-slavery","category-usa","category-videos","category-women","tag-c-span","tag-martha-jones","tag-martha-s-jones","tag-missouri"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}