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Rebecca J. Scott is an American legal and social historian whose research examines slavery, emancipation, and citizenship in the United States and Cuba. Her comparative work follows how legal status changed after abolition and how formerly enslaved people, officials, and communities contested the meaning of freedom. She is a professor at the University of Michigan and author of Degrees of Freedom: The Politics of Racial Equality.
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Who is Rebecca J. Scott?
Rebecca J. Scott is an American legal and social historian whose research examines slavery, emancipation, and citizenship. Her work often compares the United States and Cuba to show how legal status changed after abolition.
What does Rebecca Scott study after emancipation?
She studies how formerly enslaved people, officials, courts, and communities negotiated freedom and citizenship after slavery ended. Her research treats emancipation as a long legal and social process rather than a single event.
Why does Scott compare the United States and Cuba?
The comparison shows that abolition produced different legal systems, labor arrangements, and citizenship struggles in two societies shaped by slavery. It also reveals how local actors influenced the meaning of freedom after emancipation.
What kind of evidence does Rebecca Scott use?
Her work draws on legal records, administrative documents, personal testimony, and local social history. Combining those sources allows her to connect formal law with the experiences of formerly enslaved people.
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