Julius S. Scott ’77

Julius S. Scott ’77, of Ann Arbor, Mich.; Dec. 6. He was a professor emeritus at the University of Michigan, a scholar of slavery and Atlantic history. What began as his PhD thesis at Duke University in 1986 became his book, The Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution, published in 2018 with Verso Books. It traces the circulation of news in African diasporic communities in the Caribbean around the time of the Haitian Revolution and links the “common wind” of shared information to political developments leading to the abolition of slavery in the British and French Caribbean. He received a special achievement award from the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History and the Stone Book Award from the Museum of African American History, among other honors. He is survived by his partner, Prof. Elisha Renne; his mother; and two brothers.