Julius Scott and Me: The Costs of Contingency

By John Warner. Perhaps you read this weekend the heartwarming story in the Chronicle of Higher Education about Julius Scott, whose book, The Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the age of the Haitian Revolution, an exploration of an underground communication network of the Carribean slave trade was published by Verso thirty years after Scott had completed the book as part of his PhD at Duke University. More...