Julius S. Scott, author of ‘The Common Wind,’ dies at 66

By HILLEL ITALIE
AP National Writer

NEW YORK (AP) — Julius S. Scott, a groundbreaking scholar of slavery and Atlantic history who wove together stories of Black rebellion for a doctoral thesis once likened to “an underground mix-tape” and for the acclaimed 2018 book “The Common Wind,” has died. He was 66. Through his teaching, mentoring and writing, Scott was celebrated as a leader and innovator of “history from below,” how slaves themselves in the 18th century formed underground communities throughout the Americas, spreading the word through “inter-island mobility _ the world of ships and sailors.”