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Lectures and Interviews

"Habeas Corpus turned Inside Out: Peremptory Enslavement in the 19th Century Americas," Keynote lecture at the biennial meetings of the European Society for Comparative Legal History, Augsburg, Germany, June, 2023.​

"Inventing a Root of Title to Property in a Person: Saint-Domingue Refugees in Santiago and Baracoa (1803-1809)," Saturday, November 7, 2020. 9:30—11:00am Slavery, Freedom, and the Law.

Interview with Rebecca Scott by Gustau Nerín, daily El Nacional (Barcelona), 13 July 2019.

"Los Recorridos Caribeños de Adelaida Métayer en la Época de la Revolución Haitiana" [in Spanish].

Professor Rebecca Scott talks about Freedom Papers.

October 14th, 2014; Freedom Papers, delivered at the University of North Carolina. 

April 10th, 2013; The Rights and Privileges of Citizenship
These are excerpts from a longer interview of Rebecca Scott by Craig Gurian, focused on the history of citizenship in the United States.

March 10th 2012; Author's Forum; Launch of FREEDOM PAPERS; This Author's Forum, in the Gallery of the Harlan Hatcher Library, was chaired by Daniel Herwitz of the Institute for the Humanities.

June 21st, 2010; "What was at stake in Plessy v. Ferguson?" This is a videotape of the November, 2009, lecture delivered by Rebecca J. Scott to the Federal Bar Association - Eastern District of Michigan Chapter, at the invitation of the Historical Society for the U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Michigan.

January 2009; Videoteca Contracorriente; In this episode of the program Contracorriente, produced by ICAIC for Cuban educational television, Esther Pérez y Pérez interviews Rebecca Scott about her research in Cuba from the 1970s to the present. The interview includes discussion of the volumes SLAVE EMANCIPATION IN CUBA and DEGREES OF FREEDOM as well as the current manuscript CITIZENS OF A WORLD IN THE MAKING (forthcoming, 2012).
 
December 1st, 2011; Interview about DEGREES OF FREEDOM; This is a podcast of the interview by Mark Lynch of WICN, Worcester, Massachusetts