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Author's Forum Presents: Freedom Papers: An Atlantic Odyssey in the Age of Emancipation

A conversation with Rebecca Scott and Jean Hebrard

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Around 1785, a woman was taken from her home in Senegambia and sent to Saint-Domingue in the Caribbean. Those who enslaved her there named her Rosalie. Her later efforts to escape slavery were the beginning of a family’s quest, across five generations and three continents, for lives of dignity and equality. Freedom Papers sets the saga of Rosalie and her descendants against the background of three great antiracist struggles of the nineteenth century: the Haitian Revolution, the French Revolution of 1848, and the Civil War and Reconstruction in the United States.

Rebecca Scott, the Charles Gibson Distinguished University Professor of History and Professor of Law, is the University's Henry Russel Lecturer for 2012.

Jean Hebrard is Professeur associé at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, and visiting professor at the University of Michigan.

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