Celia: A Slave At the time slavery took place in the US, a devastating situation placed society to an intense debate and a fight between morality and tradition. Celia as the victim of this scenario will be the figure of sexual exploitation of owner and slave that will question the limits of property and morality. ... Celia directly confronted her master sometime on June 2, 1855. ... Celia threatened to hurt her master if he made further sexual demands. ... Black slave females were the property of their master, and married white women where property of their hu...

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The Double Standards of Citizenship and Identity Both Martha Nussbaum and W.E.B Du Bois dedicate their philosophical writings to support the value of human rights. Both writers believe that through education, these values can be effectively transmitted and true citizens can be created. In For ...

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Staunton, suggest Soos is incorrect: "former masters are not favourable to the education of the freedmen, and are not willing that they should settle on their lands at any rate.25" Unlike Tindall et al Oakes does not blame congress, yet he still believes "the Freedmen's Bureau failed.26" Zabawa agrees with Oakes, stating "the Freedmen's Bureau did not have the necessary power27" to grant effective equality in the "de facto" sense. ...

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