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Celia ( c. 1835 - December 21, 1855) was a slave found guilty of the first-degree murder of Robert Newsom, her master, in Callaway County, Missouri.
Jan 28, 2018 · And of course, we have the evidence of the fact that Celia murdered Robert Newsom in the summer of 1855. In 1850, Robert Newsome decided to travel to Audrain County to purchase the teenaged Celia. On the way home, Newsom raped Celia.
- Sarah Handley-Cousins
The inquest jury quickly determined that probable cause existed that Celia feloniously and willfully murdered Robert Newsom, and the slave girl was ordered taken to the Callaway County jail in Fulton, nine miles to the north of the Newsom farm.
Robert Newsom is a prosperous farmer living in Callaway County, Missouri, in the 1850s. He’s typical of the Callaway community: he’s a farmer, he’s migrated to Missouri from the eastern United States, and he owns a small number of slaves.
Robert Newsom, age 60, rapes Celia in 1850 and continues to demand sexual relations from his slave girl over the course of the next five years. Celia gives birth to two children, almost certainly fathered by Newsom.
Jul 12, 2024 · Newsom says he ignores requests for him to jump into the race, in an interview with Robert Costa for "CBS News Sunday Morning," to be broadcast Sunday, July 14 on CBS and streamed on Paramount+.
On January 13, 2022, Newsom denied parole to Sirhan Sirhan, Robert F. Kennedy's assassin, who had been recommended for parole by a parole board after serving 53 years in prison. Newsom wrote an op-ed for the Los Angeles Times saying Sirhan "still lacks the insight that would prevent him from making the kind of dangerous and destructive ...
