Publications: Articles
Recent articles:
Andrew J. Walker, Ana María Silva, Jane C. Manners, Jean M. Hébrard, & Rebecca J. Scott, “Impunity for Acts of Peremptory Enslavement: James Madison, the U.S. Congress, and the Saint-Domingue Refugees.” William and Mary Quarterly, 3d ser., 79, no. 3, July 2022.
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Rebecca J. Scott, “Transcription, Translation, and Collaboration. ” The Americas (July, 2022).
Rebecca J. Scott y Carlos Venegas Fornias, "María Coleta y el Fraile Capuchino: Esclavitud, Salvación y Adjudicación de Estatus." Historia y Justicia 17 (2021) – Dossier: Esclavitud, género y justicia: vida cotidiana, negociaciones y resistencias
https://journals.openedition.org/rhj/8474 “Discerning a Dignitary Offense: The Concept of Equal Public Rights during Reconstruction,” Law and History Review, vol. 38, no. 3 (August, 2020): 519-553.
"María Coleta and the Capuchin Friar: Slavery, Salvation, and the Adjudication of Status." Carlos Venegas, co-author. Wm. & Mary Q. 76, no. 4 (2019): 727-62.
"Asserting Citizenship and Refusing Stigma: New Orleans Equal-Rights Activists Interpret 1803 and 1848." In New Orleans & Saint-Louis, Senegal: Mirror Cities in the Atlantic World, edited by E. Clark, I. Thioub, and C. Vidal, 146-67. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2019.
Rebecca J. Scott, "International Law and Contemporary Slavery: The Long View," Michigan Journal of International Law 38:3 (2017).
Rebecca J. Scott, co-author. "How Does the Law put a Historical Analogy to Work?: Defining the Imposition of ‘A Condition Analogous to that of a Slave’ in Modern Brazil." L. A. de Andrade Barbosa and C. H. Haddad, co-authors. Duke J. Const. L. & Pub. Pol'y 13, no. 1 (2017): 1-46.
Social Facts, Legal Fictions, and the Attribution of Slave Status: The Puzzle of Prescription
PDF"O Trabalho Escravo Contemporâneo e os Usos da História" (Contemporary Slave Labor and the Uses of History). University of Michigan Public Law Research Paper Series, No. 333. Working Paper, 2013.
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"Dignité/Dignidade: Organizing Against Threats to Diginity in Societies After Slavery." In Understanding Human Dignity, edited by C. McCrudden. Proceedings of the British Academy, 192. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.
"Derechos públicos y comercio privado: un itinerario criollo en el Atlántico del siglo xix," translated by Edgardo Pérez-Morales. Historia Crítica [Bogotá] (January - April 2013): 205 - 235.
"Under Color of Law:
Siliadin v. France and the Dynamics of Enslavement in Historical Perspective." In
The Legal Understanding of Slavery: From the Historical to the Contemporary, edited by J. Allain, 152-64. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.
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"Paper Thin: Freedom and Reenslavement in the Diaspora of the Haitian Revolution" This essay appears in Vol. 29 of the LAW AND HISTORY REVIEW, a special issue on law and slavery published in November 2011.
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Slavery and the Law in Atlantic Perspective: Jurisdiction, Jurisprudence, and Justice,"Slavery and the Law in Atlantic Perspective: Jurisdiction, Jurisprudence, and Justice," introduction to a Special Issue on Law and Slavery,
Law and History Review 29:4 (November 2011), including articles by Natalie Zemon Davis, Malick Ghachem, Martha S. Jones, and Rebecca J. Scott, and an afterword by Walter Johnson.
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"'She. . .Refuses to Deliver Up Herself as the Slave of Your Petitioner': Émigrés, Enslavement, and the 1808 Louisiana Digest of the Civil Laws,"
Tulane European and Civil Law Forum 24 (2009): 115-136.
"Public Rights, Social Equality, and the Conceptual Roots of the Plessy Challenge" This essay appears in the MICHIGAN LAW REVIEW 106 (March 2008): 777-804.
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Plessy vs. Ferguson,"
Journal of American History, December, 2007, pp. 726-733.
"Public Rights and Private Commerce: A Nineteenth-Century Atlantic Creole Itinerary,"
Current Anthropology (April 2007): 237-256. [The 2005 Sidney Mintz Lecture, Johns Hopkins University].
"Public Rights and Private Commerce: An Atlantic Creole Itinerary" (12-08-2007) The first version of this article appeared in the April 2007 issue of CURRENT ANTHROPOLOGY. It can be accessed at this University of Chicago Press website through the web page of a library holding a subscription to the journal. A revised and expanded version appears with the title "Microhistory Set in Motion" in George Baca, Aisha Khan and Stephan Palmié, EMPIRICAL FUTURES: ANTHROPOLOGISTS AND HISTORIANS ENGAGE THE WORK OF SIDNEY W. MINTZ (University of North Carolina Press, 2009).
"The Provincial Archive as a Place of Social Memory,”
New West Indian Guide (Leiden) 76 (December 2002): 191-210.
Reprinted in
History Workshop Journal 58 (2004): 149-166; in Francis X. Blouin Jr., and William G. Rosenberg, eds.,
Archives, Documentation and Institutions of Social Memory. University of Michigan Press, 2006, pp. 280-290; in French translation in
Anneaux de la Mémoire (Nantes) 8(2005) 291-313.
Rebecca Scott and Michael Zeuske, "‘Le droit d’avoir des droits’: Les revendications des ex-esclaves à Cuba, 1872-1907," Annales (Paris) 59 (May-June 2004): 521-545.
Rebecca J. Scott and Michael Zeuske, "Property in Writing, Property on the Ground: Pigs, Horses, Land and Citizenship in the Aftermath of Slavery, Cuba 1880-1909," Comparative Studies in Society and History 44 (October 2002): 669-699.
"Reclaiming Gregoria’s Mule: The Meanings of Freedom in the Arimao and Caunao Valleys, Cienfuegos, Cuba, 1880-1899,"
Past and Present 170 (February 2001): 181-216.
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"Small-Scale Dynamics of Large-Scale Processes," [contribution to a Teaching Forum on the history of slavery], American Historical Review (April 2000): 472-479.
Selected earlier articles:
"‘Stubborn and Disposed to Stand their Ground’: Black Militia, Sugar Workers, and the Dynamics of Collective Action in the Louisiana Sugar Bowl, 1863-1887." Slavery and Abolition (London) April 1999: 103-126.
"Reclamando la mula de Gregoria Quesada: El sentido de la libertad en los valles del Arimao y del Caonao, 1880-1899," Islas e Imperios (Barcelona) 2 (Spring 1999): 89-108; expanded version in Espacios, silencios y los sentidos de la libertad [see above].
"Race, Labor, and Citizenship in Cuba. The View from the Sugar District of Cienfuegos, 1886-1909." Hispanic American Historical Review 78 (November 1998): 687-728.
"Building, Bridging, and Breaching the Color Line: Rural Collective Action in Louisiana and Cuba, 1865-1912," in Theda Skocpol, ed., Democracy, Revolution and History, a festschrift in honor of Barrington Moore, Jr. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1998).
"Defining the Boundaries of Freedom in the World of Cane: Cuba, Brazil, and Louisiana after Emancipation." American Historical Review 99 (February 1994): 70-102.
"Exploring the Meaning of Freedom: Postemancipation Societies in Comparative Perspective." Hispanic American Historical Review 68 (August 1988): 407-428. This issue was republished as a co-authored book, listed above.
"Comparing Emancipations." Journal of Social History 20 (Spring 1987): 565-584.
"Dismantling Repressive Systems: The Abolition of Slavery in Cuba as a Case Study," in Michael McPherson, Alejandro Foxley, and Guillermo O’Donnell, eds., Development, Democracy, and the Art of Trespassing: Essays in Honor of Albert O. Hirschman. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1986.
"Explaining Abolition: Contradiction, Adaptation and Challenge in Cuban Slave Society, 1860-1886." Comparative Studies in Society and History 26 (January 1984): 83-111. Reprinted in Manuel Moreno Fraginals, Frank Moya Pons, and Stanley L. Engerman, eds.,
Between Slavery and Free Labor: The Spanish-Speaking Caribbean in the Nineteenth Century. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985; and in Mamadou Diouf (dir.) and Ulbe Bosma, eds., Histoires et identités dans la Caraïbe (Paris: Éditions Karthala, 2004).
"Gradual Abolition and the Dynamics of Slave Emancipation in Cuba, 1868-1886," Hispanic American Historical Review 63 (August 1983): 449-477. Reprinted in John J. Johnson, Peter Bakewell, and Meredith Dodge, eds., Readings in Latin American History, vol. II, The Modern Experience. Duke University Press, 1985; and in Estudos Econômicos (São Paulo) 17 (Sept.-Dec. 1987).
Articles in French, Spanish, and Portuguese
Rebecca J. Scott and Jean M. Hébrard, "Rosalie Nação Poulard: Liberdade, Direito e Dignidade na Era da Revolução Haitiana," Afro-Asia 46 (2012): 61-95.
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Servitude Rebecca J. Scott & Jean M. Hébrard, "Servitude, liberté et citoyenneté dans le monde antlantique des XVIIIe et XIXe siècles: Rosalie de nation Poulard. . .,"REVUE DE LA SOCIÉTÉ HAITIENNE D'HISTOIRE ET DE GÉOGRAPHIE
Le droit avoir des droits: Les revendications des ex-esclaves à Cuba, 1872-1907, Rebecca J. Scott and Michael Zeuske, &Le droit avoir des droits: Les revendications des ex-esclaves à Cuba, 1872-1907, Annales (Paris) 59 (May-June 2004): 521-545.
Reclamando la mula de Gregoria Quesada: el significado de la libertad en los valles del Arimao y del Caunao, Cienfuegos, Cuba (1880-1899)" Rebecca J. Scott, This essay appeared in Spanish in Fernando Martínez Heredia, Rebecca J. Scott, Orlando García Martínez, eds. ESPACIOS, SILENCIOS, Y LOS SENTIDOS DE LA LIBERTAD: CUBA ENTRE 1878 Y 1912, Havana: Ediciones Unión, 2001. An English version can be found in the journal.