Julie Saville

Associate Professor of History
Ph.D. Yale University 1986

FIELD SPECIALTIES

United States History; African-American and Caribbean History; Comparative Slavery and Emancipations.

BIOGRAPHY

Julie Saville's research and teaching are focused on plantation societies of the southern United States and regions of the Caribbean from the 18th through the 20th centuries. She is especially interested in how broad historical changes during the era of trans-Atlantic slave emancipations are related to daily life, the social relations of labor, and popular forms of political expression.

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PUBLICATIONS

The Work of Reconstruction: From Slave to Wage Laborer in South Carolina,1860-1870 (Cambridge University Press, 1994; pbk 1996).

"Grassroots Reconstruction: Agricultural Laborers and Collective Actionin South Carolina, 1860-1868," Slavery and Abolition 12, no.3 (Dec. 1991): 173-82.

Ira Berlin, Thavolia Glymph, Steven F. Miller, Joseph P. Reidy, Leslie S.Rowland, and Julie Saville, Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation,1861-1867, Ser. 1, Vol. 2: The Wartime Genesis of Free Labor: The Lower South (CambridgeUniversity Press, 1990).

Ira Berlin, Barbara Jeanne Fields, Thavolia Glymph, Steven F. Miller, JosephP. Reidy, Leslie S. Rowland, and Julie Saville, "Writing Freedom's History: The Destruction of Slavery," Prologue, 17, no. 4 (Winter1985): 211-27.

She is presently at work on a study of slaves' political culture in the French Caribbean in the aftermath of the French and Haitian revolutions.

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