Celia, a Slave (Yale Drama Series)
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| Rating | : | 4.27 (659 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0300197063 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 112 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-07-05 |
| Language | : | English |
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A Part of History we Must Not Forget Veronica Sparrow This was such an emotional and difficult play to read. Celia, a Slave by Barbara Seyda is actually based on a true story. Celia was a female slave who killed her owner after years of terrible abuse in 1855 and ended up being executed for her "crime". She was only 19 years old and was a mother.I would love to see this on the st
Powerful, poetic, and stylistically bold, this work foregrounds twenty-three diverse characters to recall the events that led to the hanging of nineteen-year-old Celia, an African American slave convicted in a Missouri court of murdering her master, the prosperous landowner Robert Newsom, in 1855. Excavating actual trial transcripts and court records, Seyda bears witness to racial and sexual violence in U.S. Barbara Seyda’s stunningly theatrical Celia, a Slave is a vivid tableau of interviews with the dead that interweaves oral histories with official archival records. The ninth winner of the Yale Drama Series is a searing and powerful drama of slave litigation, injustice, institutional racism, and the rule of la
About the AuthorBarbara Seyda is the author of Nomads of a Desert City and Women in Love. She has taught at Rutgers University, Pratt Institute, the New School for Social Research, and the University of Arizona’s Continuing Education Program, and lives in Tucson, AZ.
Barbara Seyda is the author of Nomads of a Desert City and Women in Love. She has taught at Rutgers University, Pratt Institute, the New School for Social Research, and the University of Arizona’s Continuing Education Program, and lives in Tucson, AZ.