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What American Slave Masters Did to Slave Women Was Worse Than Death | The True Story of Celia (1855)..

December 21st, 1855. A 19-year-old enslaved woman named Celia stands in a Missouri courtroom, sentenced to hang. Her crime? She killed the man who had been raping her since she was 14 years old. But what terrified the system wasn't the murder—it was that she dared to say no.

This is the untold story of Celia and thousands of enslaved women who suffered horrors that the history books tried to erase. From breeding farms to the "fancy trade," from legal frameworks that made rape profitable to the women who resisted at the cost of their lives—this is the dark history they don't want you to know.

⚠️ CONTENT WARNING: This video discusses sexual violence, forced breeding, and the brutal realities of American slavery. All content is historically accurate and presented for educational purposes.

🎓 THIS IS ALL TRUE:**
Every story, statistic, and legal detail in this video is based on documented historical records, court transcripts, first-person testimonies, and academic research. This isn't dramatized—this is what actually happened in America.

*KEY HISTORICAL FIGURES:*
• Celia - Enslaved woman, Missouri (Case: State of Missouri v. Celia, 1855)
• Robert Newsom - Celia's enslaver and rapist
• Harriet Jacobs - Author of "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" (1861)
• Dr. James Norcom - Harriet's enslaver
• Rose Williams - WPA testimony survivor
• Luke Blackshear - "Giant Breeder," forced to father 56 children

*KEY HISTORICAL FACTS:*
• 1662 Virginia Law (Partus Sequitur Ventrem) - Made children of enslaved women slaves regardless of father's race
• 1850 Census - 406,000 "visibly mulatto" enslaved people recorded
• Virginia had 44,000 mixed-race enslaved people - most of any state
• The "Fancy Trade" - Light-skinned women sold for sexual exploitation
• Breeding farms in Virginia, Maryland, and North Carolina

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*📚 SOURCES & FURTHER READING:*

*PRIMARY SOURCES:*
• Jacobs, Harriet A. "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself" (1861)
• WPA Slave Narrative Project - Library of Congress (1930s interviews)
• State of Missouri v. Celia, A Slave - Court Records (1855)
• U.S. Census Records (1850)

*ACADEMIC BOOKS:*
• McLaurin, Melton A. "Celia, A Slave" (1991) - Definitive account of Celia's trial
• White, Deborah Gray. "Ar'n't I a Woman? Female Slaves in the Plantation South" (1999)
• Berry, Daina Ramey & Harris, Leslie M. "Sexuality and Slavery: Reclaiming Intimate Histories in the Americas" (2018)
• Sublette, Ned & Sublette, Constance. "The American Slave Coast: A History of the Slave-Breeding Industry" (2016)
• Eaves, Shannon C. "Sexual Violence and American Slavery" (2022)

*SCHOLARLY ARTICLES:*
• Jennings, Thelma. "Us Colored Women Had to Go Through A Plenty: Sexual Exploitation of African-American Slave Women" - Journal of Women's History (1990)
• Stevenson, Brenda E. "What's Love Got to Do with It? Concubinage and Enslaved Women and Girls in the Antebellum South" - Journal of African American History (2013)