#5 – Celia Bryan – The First Woman Executed in the state of Florida

Celia was the first woman executed by the state of Florida. She was the slave and daughter of Jacob Bryan and was hung after she murdered him.   Sources: Rozsa, Lori. "Woman on Death Row: Echoes of a slave's hanging in 1848" The Miami Herald, March 29, 1998, p. 1A+ Shipman, Marlin. "The penalty is death: U.S. newspaper coverage of women's executions" Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri Press, 2002 Robins & Mason. "Florida's Forgotten Execution: The Strange Case of Celia", Flcourthistory.org, https://www.flcourthistory.org..../Resources/Documents 2014 Jones & Niven, "Celia (Florida)", Enslaved: Peoples of the Historical Slave Trade, https://enslaved.org/fullStory/16-23-126806/