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Missouri v. Celia, a Slave: She killed the white master raping her, then claimed self-defenseMissouri v. Celia, a Slave: She killed the white master raping her, then claimed self-defense   Missouri v. Celia, a Slave: She killed the white master raping her, then claimed self-defense She warned the white slave owner that the rapes had to stop. Celia, 19, had endured five years of assaults by Robert Newsom, the Missouri widower in his 70s who’d purchased her when she was 14. She’d borne two of her predator’s children.  Missouri v. Celia, a Slave: She killed the white master raping her, then claimed self-defense Celia was facing the gallows when she went on trial in 1855 for the murder of the white slave owner who had been raping her. (Getty Images/iStockphoto) Gift She warned the white slave owner that the rapes had to stop. Celia, 19, had endured five years of assaults by Robert Newsom, the Missouri widower in his 70s who’d purchased her when she was 14. She’d borne two of her p...