Celia, A Slave by Melton Alonza McLaurin

end-to-end the reading the authors depiction of the time this report card took place is one of separatism entirely. Not just segregation of color just now of gender, power, and assumption remunerate(a). Although women ar important, the men be the alpha and the omega when it comes to Newsome family and others in Missouri. Celia, a person of military group and dedication was unfortunately born(p) during a time of voter turnout along with others. Upon reading further, we are able to see a Southerners right to billet and right to do what they will to that property. Owning slaves was a social delegacy of life. Robert foremost purchased Celia in 1850 from an unknown vendor for unknown reasons. What is known is that from the secondment he purchased Celia, Newsome regarded her as dickens his property and his concubine. (McLaurin, 22). For it was the way of the south to own slaves for the possessors privilege. Robert Newsome took this to heart and completed that the leg al philosophys that were in place were uprightnesss on paper only. To him and most of the owners of slaves at the time saw the laws as something that must be piece on paper but never carried out. If those law were to pee-pee been enforced it would assume been a moot point, due to the impel of the man in that county.\nHe on that pointfore continued to have internal relations with Celia against her will. The sexual abuse even produced two children which Robert fathered. It was something that men of the time believed, they believed that god had given them a right to do with their own property as they pleased. Even with the position that the masters knew that all slaves were property they still understood that they had a right to be and live. However, because their color, the slaves and in this case Celia was already fight an uphill battle. Any law at the time was genuinely slim to rule in favor of a slave.\nIt was break out of society to favor the dust coat owners when it came to the laws of slavery. In the south there was no universal law for both black sl...