Rebecca J. Scott School of Law University of Michigan U Michigan School of Law Thu, 11/07/2019 - 12:30pm Law School, Room G Rebecca J. Scott will present a guest lecture at the UGA Law School entitled: "The House on Bitterness Street: Maternity, Slavery, and a Fragile Freedom." Scott is the Charles Gibson Distinguished University Professor of History and Professor of Law at the University of Michigan. At the Law School, she teaches a course on civil rights and the boundaries of citizenship in historical perspective, as well as a seminar on the law in slavery and freedom. Her most recent book, co-authored with Jean M. Hébrard, is Freedom Papers: An Atlantic Odyssey in the Age of Emancipation (Harvard University Press, 2012), which traces one family's interaction with law and official documents across five generations, from West Africa to the Americas to Europe. Freedom Papers was awarded the 2012 Albert Beveridge Book Award in American History and the James Rawley Book Prize in Atlantic History, both from the American Historical Association, and the 2013 Chinard Prize from the Society for French Historical Studies and the Institut Français d'Amerique. The is a free and public event. A reception will follow in the Dunlap Room of the Law School.
