Celia, a Slave

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Index Abolitionism, 48, 54-67, 69 Agriculture: in Callaway County, Mo., 5-6 Atchinson, David R., 19-20, 55-68, 70, 108-12 Audrain County, Mo., 9, 18, 20, 8l Bartey, George, 78-79, 113-14 Benton, Thomas Hart, 19-20, 55-56, 59-62, 70-71, in Big Springs, Kans., 65 Black Hawk War, 70-71 Blue Lodges, 56—57 Boone, A. G., 62, 110-11 Boone County, Mo., 58-59 Boone's Lick, Mo., 4 Boonville, Mo., 45, 51, 58 Border ruffians, 57, 62-66, 109-11 Boulware, Isaac M., 74-75, 89, 105, 113 Boulware, Theodorick, 7, 47, 74-75 Bowles, Sallie, 34 Branson, Jacob, 109 Brown, George, 42 Brown, John, 67, 109 Burton, Vernon, 118 Callaway County, Mo.: ix, i, 20, 21; settlement, 3—8, 10-12; slavery in, 16-18 Caldwell, Jenina, 8 Calhoun, John C., 15, 19 Campbell, Alexander, 76-77 Carrington, John, 42 Cash County, Mo., 48 Caterall, Helen, 96 Celia (slave): ix-xi, 9-10, 5253 . 57~59> 61, 66; appeals sentence, 103-7; arrested, 36-45; escapes jail, 103-6; executed, 114-15; interrogated, 49-51; murders master, 30-32; purchased, 18-20; sexual exploitation of, 20-30, 8184 , 116—19; trial of, 68, 78-103 Christian church, 13 Clark, JohnB., 68 Clay County, Mo., no Clay, Henry, 15, 19 Cobb, Howell, 19 Coleman, Franklin, 108 Columbia, Mo., 51, 53 Compromise of 1850, 19-20 Craig, William, 79-80 Crow, Eveline, 42 Crow, Simon, 42 Culbretson, John, 79-80 Daily Democrat, 59-61, 108 Davis, Jefferson, 56, 64 Des Moines River, 71 Dessalines, Jean-Jacques, 46 Disciples of Christ, 76-78 145 INDEX Dix, Dorothea, ix Dollar Missouri Journal, 58-61, 105 Doniphan, Alexander W., 56, 60, 62, 111 Douglas, Stephen A., 19, 54 Dow, Charles, 108-9 Dred Scott case, 94-95, 112 Durham, Mary Ann, 9 Elkins, Stanley, 116, 118 Engerman, Stanley, 118 Ficklin, W. J., 79-80 Fitzhugh, Mary, 34 Floyd, John, 48 Fogel, Robert, 118 Forley, Mo., 62 Fort Cooper, Mo., 4 Fox-Genovese, Elizabeth, 116-18 Free Soil party, 107-9 Free State party, 65-66 Fulton Female Seminary, 11 Fulton, Mo.: ix, 7, 24, 53, 115; description of, 10-11 Fulton Telegraph, 44-45, 47, 51, 53, 61, 105, 114 Gallagher, Martin, 48 Garrison, William Lloyd, ix, 69 Genovese, Eugene, 93, 118 George (slave): as Celia's lover, 24-29; testifies against Celia, 33~37> 4> 44-46, 48, 5051 , 90, 118 Gilbert, Stephen, 79-80 Givens, William, 79-80 Greeley, Horace, 57 Griggs, Miranda, 8 Haiti, 46-47 Hall, William A., 68-70, 73-103, 106,115 Hammond, James Henry, 23, 131 (n - 5) Harbinger, 76-77 Harper's Ferry, Va., 68 Harrison, Albert, 13 Hickory Point, Kans., 108-9 Hine, Darlene Clark, 116 Hossman, George, 79-80 Howard County, Mo., 4 Howe, Isaac P., 41, 44 Hunter, William, 5 Hynton, Simpson, 42 Illinois, 54 Intelligencer, 59 Jackson, Andrew, 5 Jacobs, Harriet, 117 Jameson, John: as Celia's attorney, 73-107, 112-14; death of, 115;early career, 11-13, 49-50; family of, 13, 75; political career, 70-73 Jefferson City, Mo., 51, 53 Jefferson Examiner, 59-60 Jefferson, Thomas, 4, 15 Jones, Jefferson, 49-51, 59, 81-82, 87 Jones, Samuel, 108-10 Jury instructions, 88-102, 106 Kansas, 53-68, 103, 107-11, 121 Kansas City, Mo., 64 Kansas-Nebraska Act, 48, 54-55, 60, 64 Kentucky, 2, 3, 34, 42, 76, 79 Kouns, Nathan, 74 Kouns, Nathan Chapman, 74-75, 89, 105,113 Lane, James, 64-66, 107-9 Law and Order party, 107-8 Lawrence, Kans., 65, 108-10 Leavenworth, Kans., 63 Lecompton, Kans., 109-10 Leonard, Abiel, 105-7, 112-13 L'Ouverture, Toussaint, 46 Lexington, Mo., 58-61 Liberator, 69 Liberty, Mo., 55 146 INDEX Lincoln, Abraham, 71 Lloyd, William, 79-80 Louisiana Purchase, 54 Louisiana Territory, 15-16 Lucas, William, 12 Maine, 15 Martin, James M., 84-85 Maryland, 34, 42 Massachusetts Emigrant Aid Company, 55 Maties, Samuel, 79-80 Matt (slave), 104-5 Mexican War,71-72 Mexico, Mo., 9 Middle River, 3 Missouri Compromise, 14-16 Missouri Republican, 11, 44, 52, 59-61, 108, no Missouri River, 2, 3, 8, 10, 19, 57, 6 3 Missouri School for the Deaf, 11 Missouri State Lunatic Asylum, n Montgomery County, Ky., n Morril, Daniel, 15 Nebraska, 54 New England Emigrant Aid Company, 55-67, no Newsom, David, 9, 23, 39-41, 43-44 Newsom...