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Celia, a Slave is a very controversial story because it touches on the topic of slavery. The issue of slavery often separated people based on how they viewed the subject. This remarkable account of a young girl named Celia plays a huge role in how people viewed this raging debate over slavery. Different people had opposing views on slavery therefore the diverse groups of people would interpret Celia’s story in different ways. Slave owners, white women, or even slave women would take this story and analyze it with completely different attitudes. The white women of the 19th century “chose to support slavery, and to accept, or at least acquiesce to, the abuse of black women it produced” (138). The white women of this time would choose to emphasize how Celia “struck him with the stick until he was dead, and then rolled him in the fire and burnt him up” (135). The white women would emphasize that Celia killed her master, Robert Newsom, in cold blood. The courts would easily accept that Celia killed her master without a motive simply because she was a slave. Generally, the white women lived off their husband’s farming earnings so they would have to follow him and do what he says. This meant most white wome