CSPAN3 Lectures In History February 1, 2015
American history tv. Next, professor martha jones talked about the mid19th Century Court case of celia, a female slave who killed her master after repeated Sexual Assaults. The class discusses what options she may have had, and the involvement of her fellow slaves and her masters white neighbors in her court case. That is about an hour and 20 minutes. Today we will continue the discussion we were having, that we began a couple weeks ago, talking about the history of slavery, and in particular, the experiences of slave women. We already had a chance to look at the case of Harriet Jacobs, one of...