Historian Rebecca Scott and author Candice Proctor

This week on The Reading Life: University of Michigan historian Rebecca Scott, co-author of  "Freedom Papers: An Atlantic Odyssey in the Age of Emancipation," whose new work traces four generations of a family, from Africa to Haiti and Cuba and New Orleans to France and Belgium; and New Orleans writer Candice Proctor discusses her new Regency-set mystery,“When Maidens Mourn,” the seventh in her series featuring Sebastian St. Cyr.