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Notes INTRODUCTION 1. Charles G. Sellers, Jr., "The Travail of Slavery," in The Southerner as American, ed. Charles G. Sellers, Jr. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1960), 40-71, especially 69. 2. For an excellent discussion of the moral dilemmas posed by slavery to both nineteenth-century abolitionists and modern historians , see Robert W. Fogel, Without Consent or Contract: TheRise and Fall of American Slavery (New York: Norton, 1989), 388-411. CHAPTER ONE: BEGINNINGS 1. 1850 Federal Census for Callaway County, Missouri, Abstract , compiled by Elizabeth P. Ellsberry, Missouri Department of Archives and History, Jefferson City, Mo., 393 (hereinafter cited as 1850 Callaway Census). 2. Stanley Vestal, The Missouri (New York & Toronto: Farrar & Rinehart, 1945), 11-58. 3. History of Callaway County, Missouri, 1984 (Fulton, Mo.: Kingdom of Callaway Historical Society, 1983), 32-33 (hereinafter cited as Callaway, 1984); History of Callaway County, Missouri, Illustrated (St. Louis: National Historical Company, 1884), 94 (hereinafter cited as Callaway, 1884). 4. Callaway, 1884, 100-112, 159-60. 5. Ibid., 160, 413. 6. Compendium of the Enumeration of the Inhabitants and Statistics of the United States as Obtained from Returns of the Sixth Census (1841; rpt., New York: Arno Press, 1976), 311-13. 7. Ibid.; Seventh Census of the United States, 1850,An Appendix (1853; rpt., New York: Arno Press, 1976), 675-82 (hereinafter cited as Appendix, 1850Census). 123 NOTES 8. Phillip V. Scarpino, "Slavery in Callaway County, Missouri , 1845-1855," Part i, Missouri Historical Review 71 (October 1976): 27. 9. Ibid., 29. 10. Callaway, 1884, 187-90. 11. Agricultural Schedules of the Seventh Census of the United States, 1850, Missouri. A to C (Washington, D.C.: National Archives , 1963, microfilm), p. 343, roll i (hereinafter cited as Agricultural Census, 1850). 12. Population Schedules of the Seventh Census of the United States, 1850, Missouri Slave Schedules, Adair County through Franklin County (Washington, D.C.: National Archives, 1963, microfilm), p. 230,roll 422 (hereinafter cited as 1850Slave Census). 13. 1850 Callaway Census, 393; 1876Atlas of Missouri; Marriage Records of Callaway County, Missouri, Fulton Public Library , Fulton, Mo.. 14. 1850 Callaway Census, 393; Hugh P. Williamson, "Document : The State of Missouri Against Celia, A Slave," Midwest Journal 8 (Spring/Fall 1956):409. 15. 1850 Callaway Census, 393; Testimony of James Coffee Waynescot in "State of Missouri Versus Celia, a Slave," Callaway County Court, October term, 1855, Callaway County courthouse, Fulton, Mo., file 4496 (hereinafter cited as Celia File 4496). 16. Testimony of Jefferson Jones, Celia File 4496. 17. Appendix, 1850Census, 675-82;Scarpino, "Slavery in Callaway County," 26-29. 18. Callaway, 1884, 189, 190-94. 19. Ovid Bell, A Short History of Callaway County (N.p. 1933), 22-27. 20. Missouri Republican (St. Louis), August 15,1855. 21. Callaway, 1884, 278-79, 437-38; Bell, A Short History of Callaway County, 19-20. 22. 1850Slave Census, 263; Population Schedules of the Seventh Census of the United States, 1850, Missouri. Buchanan, Butler, Caldwell and Callaway Counties (Washington, D.C.: National Archives , 1963, microfilm), p. 249,roll 393 (hereinafter cited as 1850 Census Population Schedules). 23. Callaway, 1884, 278,417-19; Bell, A Short History of Callaway County, 19-20. 24. 1850 Census Population Schedules, 249; Callaway,1884, 279; Biographical Directory of the United States Congress,17741989 , Bicentennial Edition (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1989), 1255. 124 NOTES CHAPTER TWO: THE CRIME 1. Glover Moore, The Missouri Controversy, 1819-1821 (Lexington : University Press ofKentucky, 1953), 339; also see Charles S. Sydnor, The Development of Southern Sectionalism, 1810-1848 (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1948), 131. Moore's work remains the best survey of the Missouricrisis. 2. Moore, The Missouri Controversy, 258-73; Benjamin G. Merkel, "TheAbolition Aspects of Missouri's Anti-Slavery Controversy , 1819-1865," Missouri Historical Review 44 (1950): 232-45. 3. Don E. Fehrenbacher, The South and Three SectionalCrises (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1980), 9-23. 4. Harrison A. Trexler, Slavery in Missouri, 1804—1865 (Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1914), 13-17; Phillip V. Scarpino, "Slavery in Callaway County, Missouri." 5. 1850 Slave Census,230. 6. Appendix, 1850Census,655. 7. Merkel, "Missouri's Anti-Slavery Controversy," 232-45; Hamilton Holman, Prologue to Conflict: The Crisis and Compromise of 1850 (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1964), 108-19; Avery O. Craven, The Growth of Southern Nationalism , 1848—1861 (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1953), 1778 . Testimony ofJefferson Jones, Celia File 4496; Darlene Clark Hine, "Rape and the...