Schafer, Judith
12-018

Summary Information

Repository
Newcomb Archives
Creator - Associated name
Schafer, Judith
Title
Schafer, Judith
ID
12-018
Date
1994
Extent
1.0 Cubic feet 1 box
Language
English

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Biographical/Historical note

Schafer was a longtime member of the faculty for the department of history at Tulane University, as well as a Newcomb class of 1963 graduate, who specialized in American legal history, U.S. Southern history, and the legal history of slavery. Schaefer received her Ph. D. from Tulane in 1985. She is the author of "Brothels, Depravity, and Abandoned Women: Illegal Sex in Antebellum New Orleans," published in 2009, "Becoming Free and Remaining Free: Manumission and Enslavement in New Orleans, 1846-1862," published in 2003, and "Slavery, Civil Law, and the Supreme Court of Louisiana," published in 1997.

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Scope and Contents note

Manuscript of book written by Schafer and published in 1997

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Organization and Arrangement

Papers have been arranged in one folder, in one box.

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Administrative Information

Publication Information

Newcomb Archives

Newcomb Center for Research on Women
Seltzer-Gerard Reading Room
62 Newcomb Place
New Orleans, Louisiana, 70118
504 865 5762
vorhoff@tulane.edu

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Collection Inventory

Box 1 of 1 

General note

Folder containing loose copy of "Slavery, the Civil Law, and the Supreme Court of Louisiana" pages 2-354

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