critical of the theme of Historical Silence. My analysis is that despite being a particular, nonfictional historical account of the life of a slave, Celia, a Slave contains a great deal of assumption about the events that the author attempts to illustrate. On almost every page, McLaurin encounters holes in the historical record and attempts to fill them with his own educated guesswork. Guesswork is sometimes vital in the study of history, however in this case it is slightly exaggerated. In the book, examples