Rebecca J. Scott
Rebecca Jarvis Scott is an American historian, and Charles Gibson Distinguished University Professor of History and Professor of Law, at University of Michigan.[1]
Life
She graduated from Radcliffe College with an A.B., from the London School of Economics with an M. Phil in economic history, and from Princeton University with a Ph.D.. In 1987, she co-founded the Postemancipation Societies Project. She is co-director of the Law in Slavery and Freedom project.[2]
Awards
Works
- Degrees of Freedom: Louisiana and Cuba after Slavery, Harvard University Press, 2005, ISBN 9780674019324
- Societies after Slavery, Editors Rebecca J. Scott, Thomas C. Holt, Frederick Cooper, Aims Mcguinness, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2004, ISBN 9780822958482
- Slave Emancipation in Cuba: The Transition to Free Labor, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2000, ISBN 9780822957355
- Beyond Slavery, Authors Frederick Cooper, Thomas Cleveland Holt, Rebecca Jarvis Scott, UNC Press, 2000, ISBN 9780807848548
- "Exploring the Meaning of Freedom", The Abolition of slavery and the aftermath of emancipation in Brazil, Editor Rebecca Jarvis Scott, Duke University Press, 1988, ISBN 9780822308881
- "Beyond Comparison and Case Study", Cuban studies since the revolution, Editor Damián J. Fernández, University Press of Florida, 1992, ISBN 9780813011240
References
External links
- "Book Review", American Historical Review, Vol 112 No 1, September 2007
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